If I survive you
(Book)
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Published
New York : MCD ;, 2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Status
Morro Bay Library - Adult Fiction
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1 available
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Nipomo Library - Adult Fiction
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1 available
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1 available
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Published
New York : MCD ;, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
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.'...The linked stories in If I Survive You 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—himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica—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." --publisher's website.
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