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If I survive you / Jonathan Escoffery.

Summary:
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." "A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374605988
  • ISBN: 037460598X
  • Physical Description: 260 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : MCD : 2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
In flux -- Under the ackee tree -- Odd jobs -- Pestilence -- Splashdown -- Independent living -- If he suspected he'd get someone killed this morning, Delano would never leave his couch -- If I survive you.
Subject: Jamaicans > Florida > Miami > Fiction.
Jamaican Americans > Fiction.
Families > Florida > Miami > Fiction.
Moving, Household > Fiction.
Genre: Humorous fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Linked stories.

Available copies

  • 22 of 23 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 23 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library FICTION ESCOFFE (Text) 50686016220514 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION ESCOFFE (Text) 50686016223963 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library F ESC (Text) 37268003166113 AHMFL Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F ESC (Text) 33240004969112 Adult Fiction Available -
Bangor Public Library F ESC (Text) 75011000382207 Adult Fiction Available -
Dalton Community Library FICTION ESCOFFE (Text) 50689010458692 Adult Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults ESC Fiction (Text) 34001001422870 Adult Area Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC ESCOFFERY, JONATHAN (Text) 36446002073685 Adult Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library FIC ESCOFFERY JONATHAN (Text) 35740635883051 Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Escoffery (Text) 39427103674438 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -

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