EAN: 9780008501242

IF I SURVIVE YOU - JONATHAN ESCOFFERY TASCHENBUCH

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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