Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent. But as he discovers, he cannot there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. He decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new identity, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change yet when riots consume his neighborhood, he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant-he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home.Ĭlaude just wants a place where he can fit.
In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. For this event, Gabriel will be in conversation with Melissa Faliveno. In addition, Bump was just awarded the 2020 Ernest J.
Bump's debut was recently named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 and a Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020. Join us on Women & Chldren First's Crowdcast Channel for the virtual paperback release of Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump.
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