{"product_id":"everywhere-you-dont-belong","title":"Everywhere You Don't Belong","description":"\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 \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","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942057378023,"sku":"9781643750859","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_88f36f54-6cc9-4585-af3c-f44ee07227b4.jpg?v=1775244650","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/everywhere-you-dont-belong","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}