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"After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
About the author
Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His debut novel, Everywhere You Don't Belong, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction, the Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award. Bump teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Summary
For readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Percival Everett, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found a Utopia, from the award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, one of the most exciting new voices on the literary landscape.
Foreword
For readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Percival Everett, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found a Utopia, from the award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, one of the most exciting new voices on the literary landscape.
