A comically dark comingofage story (Tommy Orange, TheNew York TimesBook Review) about a young black man growing up on Chicagos South Side, this visceral, vivid, and urgent novel follows him on his journey towards acceptance, safety, and success. In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude isnt dangerous or brillianthes 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. Claude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rightsera 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. 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. But as he discovers, he cannot there is no safe haven fora young black man in this time and place calledAmerica. Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twentyfirstcentury landscape,Everywhere You Dont Belongmarks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.ANew York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of 2020 Winner of the Ernest J....

Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: Algonquin Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 356 g; Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 24

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