Instead of the hottest new release 'beach reads,' here are seven 'classic porch hammock' reads for the summer, including Kiese Laymon’s 'Long Division' and James Baldwin's 'Giovanni’s Room.'
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.This is the time of year I’m supposed to be alerting you to the hottest new release “beach reads.”
For those in search of a rollicking, coming-of-age adventure written in a unique and compelling voice, I’m going with Kiese Laymon’sfeaturing TV quiz kid City Coldson from 2013, and his doppelgänger, also named City Coldson, living in 1985. There’s time travel, there’s media satire, a battle against the Ku Klux Klan, and all manner of other events that coalesce into a story like you’ve never read before.
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