{"product_id":"if-i-survive-you-paperback","title":"If I Survive You - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Escoffery\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. LONGLISTED FOR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Pen\/Faulkner Award, the Southern Book Award, and the Gordon Burns Award. Nominated for\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e the 2022 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2023 Pen\/Jean Stein Open Book Award, the 2023 Pen\/Bingham Prize, the 2022 Story Prize, the Dublin Literary Prize, the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize, and the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize. National Bestseller. IndieNext Pick. One of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Notable Books of 2022.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level.\" --Ann Patchett\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery's \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePulsing 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 \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Escoffery\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassages North\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZyzzyva\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Magazine Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a fellow in the University of Southern California's PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program, and in 2021 he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He was raised in Miami, Florida. \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.25 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e PEN\/Faulkner Award (2023)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Man Booker Prize (2023)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752358052128,"sku":"9781250872210","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5c5ca30c0a3a70972337770e69b10c76.webp?v=1779993735","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/if-i-survive-you-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}