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26, to read from “Everywhere You Don’t Belong” at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley. Now teaching writing at the University of Buffalo in New York state, Bump will return to the Valley on Wednesday, Feb. It also has a close connection to the Valley: Bump wrote much of the novel and eventually sold it when he was a graduate student in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The book, which Publishers Weekly calls “astute and touching,” offers its share of social commentary as well.

“Everywhere You Don’t Belong” is the coming-of-age story of Claude McKay Love, an African-American teen from South Chicago who’s trying to find his way in matters of the heart, in terms of a career, and a place he can really feel at home. Now Bump has plumbed some of his experience, as well as his imagination, in crafting an alternately funny and dark first novel that’s getting good reviews. Somewhere in between those two extremes was Bump, a decent student with an interest in journalism who was just trying to keep his head down, avoid the violence and go on to college. senator, Barack Obama, who came from Chicago and in 2008 became the first African-American president - and whose wife had grown up just blocks from Bump’s own home. Then there was the inspiring story of a charismatic U.S. There was the grim stuff, the crime and drug-related shootings, most often taking place between young black men. When Gabriel Bump was a teenager on Chicago’s South Side, he saw two portraits of his neighborhood emerging in the media.