Everywhere You Don't Belong Summary
Gabriel Bump

Everywhere You Don't Belong Overview

Set on the South Shore of Chicago in the early 2000s, Gabriel Bump’s Everywhere You Don’t Belong functions as both a darkly comical and heartbreaking account of the efforts of Claude, a young Black man, to find his place in a still-racist America. The novel recounts Claude’s journey from the South Shore to college in Missouri to an undisclosed location in the West, underlining the challenges of belonging and fighting for justice for nonwhite Americans along the way. Throughout the novel, Bump tackles, among others, themes of loss, independence, justice, and violence.