{"product_id":"everywhere-you-dont-belong-paperback","title":"Everywhere You Don't Belong - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriel Bump\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A comically dark coming-of-age story\" (Tommy Orange, The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review) about a young black man growing up on Chicago's South Side, this visceral, vivid, and urgent novel follows him on his journey towards acceptance, safety, and success.​\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 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. 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 for a young black man in this time and place called America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, \u003ci\u003eEverywhere You Don't Belong\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Notable Book of 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Bump\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eEverywhere You Don't Belong\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Naturals\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2023. Bump's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47649818837181,"sku":"9781643750859","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/v5WfIi_J639781643750859.webp?v=1784091812","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/everywhere-you-dont-belong-paperback","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}