But as he discovers, he cannot there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. 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. 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. 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.Ĭlaude just wants a place where he can fit. In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love.
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