Long Division Av Kiese Laymon

<b>From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir <i>Heavy</i>, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. </b><BR><BR>Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, <i>Long Division</i> 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.<BR><BR>Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called <i>Long Division</i>. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City C