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If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffery
The first entry in Jonathan Escoffery’s lyrical and kaleidoscopic debut If I Survive You introduces the character at the short story collection’s center: Trelawny, the sole American-born member of a Jamaican family. In the seven linked narratives that follow, Escoffery follows Trelawny as he grapples with his identity as the son of Black immigrants living in Miami, where he never feels Black enough. Escoffery writes with urgency and heart as he illustrates his protagonist’s struggles to fit in, especially as his family falls apart in the wake of a devastating hurricane and recession. If I Survive You, longlisted for a 2022 National Book Award, is a timeless story of a young person wrestling with big questions about race and class, captured in intricately drawn scenes of everyday life.
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260 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374605988
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: MCD
Publication date: 06 September 2022
fiction
literary
short stories
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
fiction
literary
short stories
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
260 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374605988
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: MCD
Publication date: 06 September 2022
fiction
literary
short stories
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
fiction
literary
short stories
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
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