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03717aam a2200421 i 4500 001 D0258E145ACB11EF8988715045ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240815010047 008 221225r20232022nyu 000 1 eng c 020 $a 9781250872210 020 $a 1250872219 035 $a (OCoLC)1355010714 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d NYP $d OCLCO $d CAU $e rda $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-fl 100 1 $a Escoffery, Jonathan, $e author. 245 10 $a If I survive you $c Jonathan Escoffery. $h book 250 $a First paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b MCD - Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c [2023] 300 $a 260 pages $c 21 cm 500 $a "National Book Award Longlist"--Cover. 500 $a "The New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books 2022"--Cover. 500 $a Reprint. Originally published: New York : MCD - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 505 00 $t If I survive you. $t Under the ackee tree -- $t Odd jobs -- $t Pestilence -- $t Splashdown -- $t Independent living -- $t If he suspected he'd get someone killed this morning, Delano would never leave his couch -- $t If I survive you. 520 $a "A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami"--Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. 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. 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"--Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Jamaicans $v Fiction. $z Miami $z Miami 650 0 $a Jamaican Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. $z Miami $z Miami 650 0 $a Moving, Household $v Fiction. 655 7 $2 lcgft $a Adult/Short Story/Historical 655 7 $2 lcgft $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $2 lcgft $a Domestic fiction. 655 7 $2 lcgft $a Linked stories. 740 03 $a New book titles (January, 2024) 941 $a 1 952 $l 90PB522 $d 20240815011238.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D0258E145ACB11EF8988715045ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search