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03145aam a22003858i 4500 001 4787A42043AD11EDBF5B08455EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221004012439 008 220708s2022 meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022031440 020 $a 9798885783835 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 10 $a PS3605.S35 $b I4 2022b 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220708 100 1 $a Escoffery, Jonathan, $e author. $9 226860 245 10 $a IF I SURVIVE YOU [LARGE PRINT] / $c Jonathan Escoffery. 250 $a Large Print edition. 263 $a 2211 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a Thorndike Press Large Print Black Voices 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 lifeat its most gruesome and hopeful"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Short Stories (single author) $2 bisacsh 650 0 $a Large type books. $9 72061 655 7 $a Linked stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $9 200624 941 $a 5 945 $a lpt 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240207010346.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20230321010151.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20221202011302.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20221129011839.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20221004014638.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4787A42043AD11EDBF5B08455EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search