Don't Stop Snowing

“His best book yet—a mapping of literature onto life that's fun and aching in equal measure...Joycean, Buffalonian, Bumpian.”—Ed Park, author of Same Bed, Different Dreams

"Bump (Everywhere You Don’t Belong) spins an affecting story of a young man’s efforts to escape from the shadow of his brilliant but troubled father. . . . The contrasts between the relative comfort of David’s bourgeois upbringing and the hardscrabble realities of working-class Buffalo sharpen the tale. It’s a memorable portrait of a young man who finds refuge in literature.”"—Publishers Weekly

“Bump suggests that books can offer a refuge and sense of order that messy humans usually fail to provide . . . Typical for Bump, there are some entertainingly absurdist scenes . . .  David’s biracial identity (his mother is Black, his father white) is just one example of the dualities Bump explores throughout the book: working-class and ivory tower, sober and using, snow and sunshine. . .  a compassionate portrait of a man slogging through ‘academic emotional molasses’ to something like true feeling. A quirky but affecting story of reshaping oneself outside of one’s parents’ mold.”


 —Kirkus Reviews