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Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent. Publisher: Algonquin Books. Release date: February 4, 2020. PDF Free Download Everywhere You Don't Belong By: Gabriel Bump Book Descriptions: 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.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020
“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 the arrival of a brilliant young talent.

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RosaThough I'm not that familiar with Claude McKay's work except for a few poems (definitely mean to fix this soon), and am only halfway through this nove…moreThough I'm not that familiar with Claude McKay's work except for a few poems (definitely mean to fix this soon), and am only halfway through this novel (loving it), I've also been reading with your question in mind, though for me it's not a question of 'was this a coincidence?' but rather, 'what are all the parallels?' Due to the current Claude McKay revival (including release of previously-unpublished work), I've read some recent articles about his life and work (NYT mostly) - I think Bump's choice of name for his protag is 100% intentional.
Claude Mckay was:
1. an immigrant in America whose work largely identified him with an African American movement - my impression is that he often wrote about black people all around the world, especially those who had immigrated to other places
2. initially very swept up in the ideas of communism but eventually became disenchanted, at a time when many of his peers were still galvanized by communist ideals
3. a devout Catholic near the end of his life, which didn't mirror the faith/spirituality of many of his peers
While none of the above directly echoes any of Gabriel Bump's protag's life, the idea of never fitting in no matter where he goes or who he tries to tell himself he is, the idea of perpetually being an outsider, fits.
And from a writer's standpoint, the strongest parallels between Claude McKay's writing and Gabriel Bump's, evident from the early chapters:
1. writing about queerness like it's NBD - the central father figure in Everywhere You Don't Belong is Paul, whose life carries as much sadness as any of the other characters', but it never has anything to do with his being gay;
2. and speaking of sadness, writing about some of the more harsh realities of being black without worrying about how that would come across to the mainstream white gaze - in Claude McKay's case, this opened him up to criticism from well-respected African American thinkers such as W.E.B. Dubois, who accused him of playing to white mainstream's worst fears about black people. Likewise, Bump doesn't seem to hold anything back about what growing up in Chicago's South Side was like, but alongside the grim aspects, there's a definite sense of community, pride, and love.(less)

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