If I survive you
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
365 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
Summary
"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."--
Call Number
LT FIC ESC
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
ISBN
9798885783835
If I survive you
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
260 pages ; 22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : MCD ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Summary
"A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami"--
Call Number
SHORT STORY ESCOFFERY
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
ISBN
9780374605988 9781250872210
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