If I survive you
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : MCD ;, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Sequim - Fiction (Adult) | ESCOFFE Jona | On-Order |
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Published
New York : MCD ;, 2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
"A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
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."