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If I Survive You (Large Print Edition)
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ISBN13: 9798885783835
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published: Dec 14 2022
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Man Booker Prize, Man Booker Prize, National Book Awards, PEN/Faulkner Award
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published: Dec 14 2022
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Man Booker Prize, Man Booker Prize, National Book Awards, PEN/Faulkner Award
If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. --Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory and like nothing you've read before. --Marlon James, author of Moon Witch, Spider King
A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what their younger son, Trelawny, calls the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive. Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper--himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica--Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin, Cukie, looks for a father who doesn't want to be found. As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net. Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery's debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.
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