A review by booksaremypeople
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump

5.0

This book is about a boy named Claude McKay Love who grows up in The Southside (South Shore) of Chicago in a rough neighborhood. His parents up and abandon him, leaving him under the care of his kick ass Grandma and her roommate, Paul. The novel looks at Claude's day to day life on the surface level, but truly explores much more complicated and serious themes such as police violence and civil unrest with both heft and humor. Claude gets into trouble at school, but no matter what, in public, his Grandma always has his back, standing up to his principal and other people who she feels has wronged him. He often thinks about how there’s no place for peace in his neighborhood and the history books in school don’t reflect the world he is currently living in. Fantastic, surprising read that quietly crept up of me and I loved it.