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Listen to Kiese Laymon in conversation about Long Division on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast

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The debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of Heavy: An American Memoir is a picaresque coming-of-age story that will have you laughing and crying, sometimes in the span of a single sentence. Filled with indelible characters and beautifully written, this genre-bending novel is a provocative and unforgettable story of love and family and internet fame and time travel set in rural, post-Katrina Mississippi that Jesmyn Ward (Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones) calls “smart, funny, and sharp.”

From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.

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 con...