Everywhere you don't belong
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. Claude just wants a place where he can fit. 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. 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. But as he discovers, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America.
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African Americans > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction. |
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Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781616208790
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264 pages ; 23 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.