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Everywhere you don't belong a novel

A darkly funny and heartfelt debut novel about what it means to grow up young and black on the south side of Chicago when it feels like your choices are slim to none.

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Main Author:	Bump, Gabriel (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	African Americans > Fiction. Racism > Fiction. Grandparent and child > Fiction. Riots > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction. College students > Fiction. Coming-of-age fiction. Urban fiction.
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Summary:	A darkly funny and heartfelt debut novel about what it means to grow up young and black on the south side of Chicago when it feels like your choices are slim to none. Claude McKay Love is an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures. 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. When riots consume his neighborhood he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago to go to college, find a new identity, and leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. Is there is any safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America? -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description:	264 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781616208790 1616208791
Author Notes:	Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His debut novel, Everywhere You Don't Belong , was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction, the Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award. His second novel, The New Naturals , was a Washington Post , Boston Globe , and New York Times Notable Book of 2023. Bump's writing has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Best American Short Stories , and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.