If I Survive You: Shortlisted For The Booker Prize 2023

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory MARLON JAMES

An absolute delight to read DIANA EVANS

Superb … A strong, much needed new voice in our literature PERCIVAL EVERETT

A compelling hurricane of a book ANN PATCHETT

A major debut that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew.

1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm.

Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society which regards him with suspicion, greeting him with the puzzled question ‘What are you?’

Their eldest son Delano’s longing for a better future for his own children is equalled only by his recklessness in trying to secure it.

As both brothers navigate the obstacles littered in their path – an unreliable father, racism, a financial crisis and Hurricane Andrew – they find themselves increasingly pitted against one another. Will their rivalry be the thing that finally tears their family apart?

If I Survive You pulses with inimitable style, heart and barbed humour while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay checks. It announces Jonathan Escoffery as a chronicler of life at its most gruesome and hopeful.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

‘A debut so brilliant it stopped me in my tracks … Astonishing’ I NEWSPAPER

Utterly unstoppable … a book that you simply do not want to end IRISH TIMES

A commanding debut from a talent to watch OBSERVER

Sings with authenticity and heart ANOTHER

‘Astonishingly compact and engaging … Dazzling JOYCE CAROL OATES

A most anticipated Book of 2023 in AnOther Magazine, Huffington Post UK and i Newspaper

About the Author

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 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.

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