{"product_id":"long-division","title":"Long Division","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLong Division\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKiese Laymon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781982174828\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom the 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).\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Long Division | Kiese Laymon | Paperback | 9781982174828 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1741026","offer_id":50884049436930,"sku":"1741026","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71kvOe2GmLL.jpg?v=1793081478","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/long-division","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}