Contains two interwoven stories about 14-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson has meltdown on stage during a televised quiz contest and becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day he is sent to stay with his grandmother in the small town of Melahatchie, Mississippi, where he is given a strange book without an author called "Long Division" that is set in 1985 but has many similarities to his own life and that of a young girl named Baize Shephard who has recently disappeared from town.