If I Survive You
English
By (author): Jonathan Escoffery
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE
Dazzling GUARDIAN
Blistering THE TIMES
'A delight' DIANA EVANS
Fiction written at the highest level ANN PATCHETT
'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES
An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.
What are you?
This is the puzzled question that greets a young Trelawny growing up in a Miami where his racial ambiguity is regarded with confusion and suspicion. Its not just his neighbours, his Jamaican parents Topper and Sanya dont seem to understand him either. Then theres his stubborn older brother Delano, who is determined to secure a better future for his own children, no matter what it takes.
As both brothers navigate the challenges littered in their path a woefully unreliable father, racism, recession and even a hurricane they find themselves increasingly at odds. Will they make it through together or must one brothers future come at the cost of the other?
Shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize
An astonishingly assured debut novel clarity, variety and fizzing prose BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES
So damn funny RUMAAN ALAM
Astonishing I NEWSPAPER
'Utterly unstoppable IRISH TIMES
What readers say:
So good it was hard to put down
Humour, real feeling totally recommend
So engrossing and entertaining
A must read
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