![]() ![]() There, he contends with violent racists, his grandmother’s church, the reaction to his outburst at the competition (which has gone viral in the way things really could go viral back in 2013), and the disappearance of his neighbor, a girl named Baize Shephard. He and his school rival, Lavander Peeler, both make a scene at the national “Can You Use that Word in a Sentence” competition, and City is sent to stay with his grandmother in the rural town of Melahatchie. “Book One,” (though Laymon says you can read them in any order, I chose the obvious order) follows a black Mississippian boy named City, in the year 2013. ![]() The book is split into two halves which read starting from either side of the book, and ending in the middle. I read the 2021 edition, which I’ll talk more about later. I reviewed his memoir Heavy a couple years ago, and have finally read his other two books, starting with Long Division, a novel. Kiese Laymon is a phenomenal writer, and you can tell so the moment you begin any of his three books. ![]()
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