01754cam a2200349 i 4500 551656344 TxAuBib 20220323120000.0 210527s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982177362 hardcover 1982177365 hardcover 9781982174828 paperback 17.00 198217482X paperback 17.00 TxAuBib rda Laymon, Kiese. Long division : a novel / Kiese Laymon. New York : Scribner, 2021. 153, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 2021 edition contains two individually paged and inverted sections. Pagination varies for different editions. "Scribner trade paperback edition" -- Title page verso. 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. 20220323. African American teenage boys Fiction. Contests Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Mississippi Fiction. Time-travel fiction.