{"product_id":"everywhere-you-dont-belong","title":"Everywhere You Don't Belong","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardcover, excellent condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Book of 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eClaude 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePercolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEverywhere You Don’t Belong\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beck's Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43800701468738,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/51r2pPyxSxL._SY445_SX342_FMwebp.webp?v=1780087009","url":"https:\/\/becksbooksmpls.com\/products\/everywhere-you-dont-belong","provider":"Beck's Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}