Claude is a young black man in search of a place where he can fit; 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. After a riot consumes his neighborhood, Claude decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new life and identity. But as he discovers, there’s no escaping the people and places that made him.
Written in a fierce and original voice attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.
- ISBN13 9781616208790
- Publish Date 1 February 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 July 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Algonquin Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English
- URL http://melia.co.uk/page/detail/?k=9781616208790