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Everywhere You Don't Belong (2020)

par Gabriel Bump

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020
Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
??A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it??s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump??s meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a way home no matter where you are, is handled so beautifully that you don??t know he??s hypnotized you until he??s done.? ??Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review

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. 
 
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. 
 
Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don??t Belong marks t
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A welcome and needed glimpse into the life and mind of a young, black male in Chicago, Everywhere You Don’t Belong is set amidst historical riots and landmark events. Claude is an intelligent but conflicted youth growing up in a broken and chaotic home that makes up with love and humor what it lacks in convention. As he grows, you witness the path that shapes his tender heart, leading him into a bright future.

Bump’s unique writing style lends to the raw and intense subject matter while hinting at the youthfulness of the main character and author. Highlighting a quiet soul amongst a violent background, he serves an insight into what can often be difficult to interpret amidst political and racial tension. Throughout the story, you’re introduced to a wide range of characters, with many temporary roles and very few permanent structures. Oddball guardians, Paul and Grandma, offer a comedic respite from the tragic routine of the South Shore, while Janice supplies a friendly and romantic relationship rife with angsty teen realism.

Reading this is an experience that will stay with me for awhile and I look forward to sharing this book with friends and readers.

Many thanks to Algonquin Books for a complimentary copy of this book. The opinions are my own. ( )
  LiteraryGadd | Jan 16, 2023 |
Idk, it wasn't my favorite. I just never really got into it, and there were so many random characters that it got a little confusing. I didn't really feel like there was a cohesive plot-- it was kind of just things happening, but not in the way that works for some novels. ( )
  ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 |
I have much respect for the author and the important subject of this book. As a coming-of-age story about a poor black kid living in South Chicago, this novel provides an important, and presumably semi-autobiographical, perspective on the enormous socio-economic and racial challenges of those circumstances. I just wanted to see a more complex character in Claude, the protagonist. As empathetic as I was for him, his struggle seemed a little predictable, his path out too straight-forward, and the circumstances around the story's climax somewhat implausible. Still, an important story and one I'm glad I read. ( )
  Mike_Trigg | Feb 10, 2022 |
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3.35 This touching and heartbreaking debut novel about a young Black man growing up on the South Side of Chicago took a long journey through my TBR list. Read my full review here. ( )
  joyblue | Jan 31, 2022 |
Everywhere You Don't Belong is a little like a runaway train and I mean that in the best way. You think you know where you're headed and what's going to happen but then you hit a bump and things speed in a completely different direction and all you can do is hang on and hope that it all end well.

This debut novel centers on Claude McKay Love, a fairly ordinary black boy being raised by his grandmother and her eccentric gay friend, Paul, on the South Side of Chicago in what I think are the 2000s (it sounds like Obama is senator when he's mentioned although it's never confirmed). He's got a lot to deal with - abandoned by his parents, bullied by schoolmates, dealing with riots and violence outside his front door, losing friends, falling in love and having to live up to his grandmother's expectation that he'll grow into a social activist like she is - and he's not always able to cope. And even though it's set what I think is 20 years ago, unfortunately the issues the book covers are still timely - when an innocent black boy is killed by police, a riot erupts on the South Shore changing Claude's life and the lives of those around him forever.

Bump writes in what almost feels like a stream of consciousness. It took me a while to get into the rhythm but once I did, it really added to the story. There's a lot of humor especially in the characters' bluntness (I loved Grandma and want a prequel about her backstory with Paul!) but the book also has heart and tackles some difficult topics. Claude isn't a tough guy. He actually cries over everything and you kind of can't blame him.

The second half is when it went off the rails for me (again, not in a bad way) and we follow Claude to college in Missouri. I was less interested in his experience there but by then I'd become so attached to Claude that I was willing to hold on to see how the ride ended and I was glad I did.

The early chapters of this book are close to perfection for me. Bump's writing is sharp and clever, the plot is layered and I couldn't get enough of Claude's childhood friends Nugget, Bubbly and Jonah. I wish the rest of the book had lived up to the start but I still enjoyed it. It's a really worthwhile and quick read that I bet a lot of people will be talking about. I can't wait to see what's next from this author! ( )
  ReadingIsMyCardio | Jan 15, 2021 |
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020
Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
??A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it??s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump??s meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a way home no matter where you are, is handled so beautifully that you don??t know he??s hypnotized you until he??s done.? ??Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review

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. 
 
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. 
 
Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don??t Belong marks t

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