Long Division

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction From the uthor 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