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Long Division by Kiese Laymon
4.5
adventurous challenging funny reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

What a fantastic, unique, funny, clever book!

It has a theme I often struggle with — time travel — but I got it enough to appreciate the quality of what Kiese has put together. I did spend some time trying to piece together exactly what happened when afterwards, and whether I missed something that was meant to make it all click, before realising that that's not really the important part. I got the overall gist and it was a brilliant backdrop for such important conversations.

Probably one I'd wanna reread in a couple years and I'm also excited to read more of Laymon's work.

P.S. I hear a more recent edition of this book has the book in a different structure? I've got an edition from 2013.

P.P.S. This was one of the first ever recommendations Rob's first StoryGraph rec algorithm gave to me! The model has come on a very long way since then but it's very cool to see that it was getting a lot right back then.

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