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The New Naturals

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gabriel BumpPublish date:2024-10-22Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781643755335ISBN-10:1643755331UPC:9781643755335Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Cultural Heritage, LiterarySize:8.24 x 5.56 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCQ6YX4M0B
Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia.

An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the loss of her newborn child, this hill becomes more than a safe haven--it becomes a place to start over. She convinces her husband to help her construct a society underground, somewhere everyone can feel safe, loved, and accepted.

Soon their utopia begins to take shape and attracts the unhoused, the disillusioned, and the spiritually lost. But no matter how much these people all yearn for a sanctuary from the existential dread of life above the surface, what happens if this new society can't actually work?

From an exciting new literary voice, The New Naturals is fresh and deeply perceptive, capturing the absurdity of life in the 21st century. In this remarkable feat of imagination, Bump shows us that, ultimately, it is our love for and connection to each other that will save us.

**A 2023 NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST Notable Book and a BOSTON GLOBE Best Book of the Year**
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781643755335ISBN-10:1643755331UPC:9781643755335Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Cultural Heritage, LiterarySize:8.24 x 5.56 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCQ6YX4M0B
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.
Publisher: Algonquin Books

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