In The Year Of Long Division

Author : Kiese Laymon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982174835

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Long Division by Kiese Laymon Pdf

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction 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 contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. 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. City’s two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother’s house, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance. Brilliantly “skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism” (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike “smart, funny, and sharp” (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history “that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves” (The Wall Street Journal).

Author : Dawn Raffel
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015033253157

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In the Year of Long Division by Dawn Raffel Pdf

"Dawn Raffel's debut delivers us to the wild spaces of a youth in the Midwest and to the blank terrors of the heart. There is a cold wind blowing through these stories, whose sentences come to us as a rebuke to anything felt. In her flight from sentiment, Raffel masterfully reifies the new will to absence that marks the moral and emotional bearing of her generation. The result is not just an acknowledgment of all our long divisions - the divide between impulse and the means to apprehend it, between desire and entrapment - but of the final sweet concession that we must each of us make to the futility of even the smallest mending. In the Year of Long Division gives us the triumph of craft over the obstinance of expression and the installation of a writer certain to be cited in the continuing reinvention of the American short story."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Denise Gaskins
Publisher : Tabletop Academy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781892083241

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Let's Play Math by Denise Gaskins Pdf

Author : Humble Math
Publisher : Karl Steam
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635783070

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Humble Math - 100 Days of Long Division by Humble Math Pdf

A great long division workbook. Plenty of practice problems on every page and still enough room to show your work. Starts with single digit divisor problems. Later introduces remainders and multi-digit divisors. An excellent resource for students wanting to master the steps of long division.

Author : Humble Math
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635783011

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Humble Math - 100 Days of Timed Tests by Humble Math Pdf

100 days of multiplication problems. Discover the difference a couple minutes of practice can make. These are reproducible practice sheets to help students learn their multiplication facts and recall them with fluidity. This book focuses on digits 0-12. An answer key is included in the back of this book, so students can easily check their own work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Remedia Publications
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Division
ISBN : 1596398574

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Division Word Problems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leonard Michaels
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429933827

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The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels Pdf

Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they appeared in The New Yorker, Threepenny Review, and Partisan Review. At every stage in his career, Michaels produced taut, spare tales of sex, love, and other adult intimacies: gossip, argument, friendship, guilt, rage. A fearless writer—"destructive, joyful, brilliant, purely creative," in the words of John Hawkes—Michaels probed his characters' motivations with brutal humor and startling frankness; his ear for the vernacular puts him in the company of Philip Roth, Grace Paley, and Bernard Malamud. Remarkable for its compression and cadences, his prose is nothing short of addictive. The Collected Stories is a landmark. "Leonard Michaels's stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries -- Grace Paley and Philip Roth." -- Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review

Author : Brandon P. Fleming
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306925122

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Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming Pdf

An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom. When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared. Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar—to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others—teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history. Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming’s transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations.

Author : Kiese Laymon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526605764

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Heavy by Kiese Laymon Pdf

Kiese Laymon grew up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.

Author : Kiese Laymon
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781982170820

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR). Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world—Mississippi, the South, the United States—that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon’s profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is “simply one of the most talented writers in America” (New York magazine).

Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307428134

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The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by Ben Marcus Pdf

“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. You could build a civilization with them.” —Ben Marcus, from the Introduction Award-winning author of Notable American Women Ben Marcus brings us this engaging and comprehensive collection of short stories that explore the stylistic variety of the medium in America today. Sea Oak by George Saunders Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Do Not Disturb by A.M. Homes The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender The Caretaker by Anthony Doerr The Old Dictionary by Lydia Davis The Father’s Blessing by Mary Caponegro The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders by Aleksandar Hemon People Shouldn’t Have to be the Ones to Tell You by Gary Lutz Histories of the Undead by Kate Braverman When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine by Jhumpa Lahiri Down the Road by Stephen Dixon X Number of Possibilities by Joanna Scott Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace The Sound Gun by Matthew Derby Short Talks by Anne Carson Field Events by Rick Bass Scarliotti and the Sinkhole by Padgett Powell

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Author : Mary Robison
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619029675

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Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison Pdf

“Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel.” —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her secluded Southern town, and L.A., where she has a weakening grasp on her job as a script doctor. Having been sacked by most of the studios and convinced that her dealings with Hollywood have fractured her personality, Money Breton talks to herself nonstop. She glues and hammers and paints every item in her place. She forges loving inscriptions in all her books. Through it all, there is her darling puzzling daughter who lives close by but seems ever beyond reach, and her son, the damaged victim of a violent crime under police protection in New York. While both her children seem to be losing all their battles, Money tries for ways and reasons to keep battling. Why Did I Ever is a book of piercing intellect and belligerent humor. Since its first publication in 2002 it has had a profound impact, not only on Robison’s devoted following, but on the shape of the contemporary novel itself.

Author : Andrea Cohen
Publisher : Salmon Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124141958

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Long Division by Andrea Cohen Pdf

The latest poetry from the winner of the Owl Creek Poetry Prize, a PEN Discovery Award and the director of the Blacksmith House Reading Series.

Author : Sarah Harvey
Publisher : Piper ebooks
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783492968621

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Long Division by Sarah Harvey Pdf

Fliss Blakeney is an English teacher in an all-girls school, but now she really wishes she'd paid more attention to her maths, and to her men. It takes her one year, eight months and six days to work out that if she marries Richard Trevelyn she'll make the biggest mistake of her life. What she didn't count on was her younger sister, Sally, agreeing to become Mrs Trevelyn instead. Fliss can hardly believe it. Surely he can't make her happy? But with her sister adamant, her mother unyielding and her father no help at all, there seems to be nothing left for Fliss to do except sit back and let the ceremonies commence. However, when Richard's maneating ex-girlfriend Kat enters the equation, life becomes a little more complicated. And the discovery that Kat's husband Alex is the most gorgeous man Fliss has ever seen creates a brain-teaser too puzzling for even the cleverest of scholars...