Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Everywhere You Don’t Belong | 2020 | Buy |
| The New Naturals | 2023 | Buy |
Gabriel Bump has published two novels. Everywhere You Don’t Belong (2020), his debut, follows Claude, a young Black man growing up on Chicago’s South Side, as he tries to figure out where he fits. The novel won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was praised for its humor and emotional honesty.
The New Naturals (2023) moves to a different setting, a utopian commune in Western Massachusetts, and deals with a couple trying to build a better world after personal loss. Both novels are short, sharp, and interested in how people cope when the places and systems around them fail.