Long Division, Paperback

Descriere

Kiese Laymon's debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that's alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. The book contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, 14-year-old Citoyen ""City"" Coldson becomes an overnight You Tube 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 City, along with his friend and love-object, 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 with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet protect his family from the Klan. City's two stories ultimately converge in the mysterious work shed behind his grandmother's, where he discovers the key to Baize's disappearance.

Despre autor

Kiese Laymon

scriitor american · n. 1974

Kiese Laymon este un scriitor american. Este profesor de limba engleză și scriere creativă la Universitatea Rice. Este autorul a trei cărți de lungime completă: un roman, Long Division (2013) și două memorii, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013) și Heavy: An American Memoir (2018), care a câștigat premii. Laymon a primit o bursă MacArthur în 2022.