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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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery''s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.\u003c\/p\u003e erational storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitaerational storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery''s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.erational storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitaisastrous 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery''s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.erational storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitahes itself out of its own tank rather than stay. 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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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery''s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.\u003c\/p\u003e erational storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery''s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.isastrous 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery''s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.erational storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery''s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.erational storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 the younger son, Trelawny, calls \"the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery''s \u003ci\u003eIf I Survive You\u003c\/i\u003e 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, 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. 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