01958cam a2200397 i 4500 1038835301 TxAuBib 20231108120000.0 220502s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022020651 9780374605988 hardcover 037460598X hardcover TxAuBib rda Escoffery, Jonathan,. If I survive you / Jonathan Escoffery. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 260 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami"-- Provided by publisher. 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.". 20231108. Jamaicans Florida Miami Fiction. Jamaican Americans Fiction. Families Florida Miami Fiction. Moving, Household Fiction. Fiction. fast Linked stories. fast Humorous fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast Domestic fiction. fast Linked stories. Cycles de nouvelles. rvmgf