Bibliograph

If I survive you, Jonathan Escoffery

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Label

If I survive you, Jonathan Escoffery

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

If I survive you

Oclc number

1289250366

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Escoffery

Summary

"A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami"--, Provided by publisherIn 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."

Table Of Contents

In flux -- Under the ackee tree -- Odd jobs -- Pestilence -- Splashdown -- Independent living -- If he suspected he'd get someone killed this morning, Delano would never leave his couch -- If I survive you

Target audience

adult

Classification