EAN: 9780008501242

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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 first 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 searches 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 white supremacy. 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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