Hyde Park Book Club: Monday, March 15, 2021
Hyde Park Book Club Monday, March 15, 20217:30pm Via Zoom
Gabriel Bump
Everywhere You Don't Belong
A Novel
Author of Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Gabriel Bump, will join us. Gabriel is the 2020 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence in fiction by African Americ an authors. This is his debut novel.
The novel is set in the South Sid e of Chicago and tells the story of the coming-of-age of Claude McKay Love. As a young Black man born in the South Shore neighborhood, Love is ra ised by his civil rights-era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change. But Claude is just an average kid coping w ith abandonment, riots and failed love. REGISTER HERE