{"product_id":"long-division-kiese-laymon-9781982177362","title":"Long Division","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a \"funny, astute, searching\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in a voice that's alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, \u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e features two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen \"City\" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called \u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but \u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCity's two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother's house, where he discovers the key to Baize's disappearance. Brilliantly \"skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), this dreamlike \"smart, funny, and sharp\" (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history \"that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kiese Laymon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1982177365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982177362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Kiese Laymon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44055313055999,"sku":"9781982177362","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d0eef305-de11-4ca4-9eca-1a0433f2d5d8.jpg?v=1685035066","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/long-division-kiese-laymon-9781982177362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}