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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Laymon, Kiese, author.     Subjects     African American teenage boys -- Fiction.     Missing persons -- Fiction.     Race relations -- Fiction.     Books -- Fiction.     Time travel -- Fiction.     Mississippi -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Laymon, Kiese, author.       by title:      Long division : a no...         MARC Display

Long division : a novel / Kiese Laymon. by Laymon, Kiese, author. New York : Scribner, 2021. Subjects African American teenage boys -- Fiction.   Missing persons -- Fiction.   Race relations -- Fiction.   Books -- Fiction.   Time travel -- Fiction.   Mississippi -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781982174828 (paperback) 198217482X (paperback) Description:  153, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Edition:  Scribner trade paperback edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Written in a voice that's alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division 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. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division 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. City'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" (Publishers Weekly), 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" (The Wall Street Journal).   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Laymon Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Fiction Laymon Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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