A review by kmariek
Long Division by Kiese Laymon

In case you're not holding a copy, the book is structured with one story on each side, with the side you're not reading existing as a book in the other. Laymon doesn't explicitly state when to switch, but since I was doubling up on formats (😎 weird brag), hearing the audiobook switch helped me watch for times it made sense to switch while reading the physical one. There's time travel, the two storylines, a school competition where students have to use a difficult word meaningfully, and such entertaining writing for the character City's answers that I probably could have read a separate book of just those. I can not claim to have completely followed what was going on with the time travel or the relation between the two stories at all times, but thought both elements added new angles to what the main characters are going through.