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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bump, Gabriel, author.

Title: The new naturals / Gabriel Bump.

Description: First edition. | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023. | Summary: “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”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023025843 | ISBN 9781616208806 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781643755342 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3602.U474 N49 2023 | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20230608

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023025843

eISBN: 978-1-64375-534-2

E3-20240919-PDJ-PC-REV

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Part One

Naturals

Part Two

Sojourner

The New Naturals

Sojourner

The New Naturals

The Benefactor

Sojourner

The New Naturals

Sojourner

The New Naturals

Elting

Sojourner

Elting and Buchanan

Part Three

Bounce

Gibraltar

Elting and Buchanan

The Benefactor

Part Four

Sojourner and Bounce

The Benefactor

Gibraltar and Rio

Sojourner and Bounce

The New Naturals

Elting and Buchanan

The New Naturals

Rio

The New Naturals

Part Five

Elting and Buchanan

Acknowledgments

Discover More

About the Author

Also by Gabriel Bump

Praise for "The New Naturals"

Questions for Discussion

Navigation

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