Everywhere You Don’t Belong

Gabriel Bump

One-Two Punch – This striking first novel tells one story in two parts. The first, set in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, pulsates. We meet Claude McKay Love as a kid who is growing up fast. The writing dazzles and the years fly by as Claude encounters more people who shape the course of his life, for good and for bad. The novel’s second half is set in Missouri, on a college campus in a rural part of the Show Me state where the pace of Claude’s life (as well as the pace of the book’s storytelling) slows – until our hero is reunited with the love of his young life as well as an old, deadly ghost or two from South Shore.