If I Survive You
Escoffery, Jonathan
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
’Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory’ Marlon James, author of A
Brief History of Seven Killings ’Sumptuous and astute ... An
absolute delight to read’ Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People
’A compelling hurricane of a book’ Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch
House A major debut, blazing with style and heart,
that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and
Hurricane Andrew. You want a home.
You want to win back your girlfriend’s
admiration. You want to prove that your father
bet on the wrong son. 1979.
Topper and
Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native
Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far
from warm. Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a
society which regards him with suspicion and confusion, greeting him
with the puzzled question ’What are you?’ Their eldest son
Delano’s longing for a better future for his own children is equalled
only by his recklessness in trying to secure it.
As
both brothers navigate the obstacles littered in their path - an
unreliable father, racism, a financial crisis and Hurricane Andrew -
they find themselves pitted against one another. Will their rivalry be
the thing that finally tears their family apart? The thrilling
linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You pulse with
inimitable style, heart and barbed humour while unravelling what it
means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay checks.
They announce Escoffery as a once in a generation talent and chronicler
of life at its most gruesome and hopeful.
’A debut so brilliant it stopped me in my tracks ... [An] astonishing,
compassionate entrance to the literary scene’ i Newspaper
’A strong, much needed new voice in our literature’
Percival Everett, Booker shortlisted author of The Trees
’A powerful new writer’ Nikesh Shukla, author of Brown
Baby A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 in
AnOther Magazine, Huffington Post UK and i Newspaper
Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu: Kovakantinen
ean: 9780008501211
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