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If I survive you

Escoffery, Jonathan (author.).

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"--

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  • ISBN: 9780374605988
  • ISBN: 037460598X
  • Physical Description: print
    260 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : MCD : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 3 / 5.0

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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.

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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. (Show)
  • 3 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative.

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  • 2 current holds with 23 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Emmaus Public Library FIC ESCOFFERY, JONATHAN (Text) 36446002073685 Adult Fiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library FIC ESC (Text) 33400001566838 Adult Fiction Available -
Parkland Community Library F ESC (Text) 34422007202282 Adult Fiction Available -
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