ISBN 9780008501228|Paperback|260 pages|2023|Fourth Estate
If I Survive You is an extraordinary debut collection, an intensively granular, yet panoramic depiction of what it's like to try to make it — or not — in the USA, a kaleidoscopic madhouse of a country.
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If I Survive You is a debut collection of eight interconnected short stories by Jonathan Escoffery. The stories center around a Jamaican family living in Florida, and the struggles they face in trying to make a life for themselves in America. The protagonist, Trelawny, is a young man who is trying to find his place in a world that is often hostile to him. He faces financial disaster, racism, and bad luck, but manages to claw his way out of homelessness through a series of odd jobs. The stories are masterfully constructed with heart and humor, and explore themes of identity, belonging, and attachment.
Author:
Jonathan Escoffery
ISBN
9780008501228
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
260
Year of Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Fourth Estate
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Contributors
Jonathan Escoffery 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 the Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Passages North, Zyzzyva, and Electric Literature, and has been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. He received his MFA from the University of Minnesota, is a PhD fellow in the University of Southern California's PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program, and in 2021 was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. If I Survive You is his debut book.
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