Everywhere You Don't Belong

Name: Everywhere You Don't Belong
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Gabriel Bump
ISBN: 9781980063742

Author: Gabriel Bump

Narrator: Korey Jackson

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2020

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Family Life, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

"This book is astonishing. You'll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you'll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established himself as a stunning talent to be reckoned with." -Maaza Mengiste, author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze In this powerful, edgy, and funny debut novel about making right and wrong choices, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable and lovable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude is a young black man in search of a place where he can fit; 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. After a riot consumes his neighborhood, Claude decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new life and identity. But as he discovers, there's no escaping the people and places that made him. Written in a fierce and original voice attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don't Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M is taking a break.

I loved Claude McKay Love, the main character in this coming of age story of a young black man, growing up on the South side of Chicago. Claude, abandoned at 5 by his parents is raised by an unconventional, activist grandmother who loves him. He’s heartbroken and so was I. Claude cries a lot over be......more

Goodreads review by Chris

I worry readers are going to be expecting something from this book that is very different from what they receive, and this will only drag down the rating. Everywhere You Don't Belong is definitely a book very much about the issues of social justice and racism, but it is very much written in a clever......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne

Claude Mckay Love grew up in the South Side of Chicago. He was raised by his grandmother after his parents abandoned him at a young age. She is a great influence in his life and pushes him to continue his education while avoiding the drug and gang violence from their neighborhood. After a violent ri......more

Goodreads review by Matt

I tossed out Everywhere You Don't Belong as an option to our book club and got quite a few bites. We wanted to read something that spoke to the times and, specifically, to the Black Lives Matter movement. This stacked up nicely alongside my recent reading trajectory which has included a powerful ind......more