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If I survive you

Escoffery, Jonathan2022
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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."
Main title:
If I survive you / Jonathan Escoffery.
Author:
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2022.©2022
Collation:
260 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
97800085012289780008501228 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
739599
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