{"product_id":"buy-if-i-survive-you-jonathan-escoffery-conf20250526084","title":"If I Survive You (Jonathan Escoffery)","description":"\u003ch1\u003e If I Survive You \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Author: Jonathan Escoffery \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e About Book \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Publisher: Fourth Estate \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Published date: 2022-09-06 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pages: 260 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e GoodReads Rating: 3.7 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e Condition \u0026amp; Size \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Size: UK Format C (Large Format) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book Type: Paperback \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e Condition: Very Good \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e Summary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION\n\n\nA major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew.\n\n\nYou want a home.\n\nYou want to win back your girlfriend’s admiration.\n\nYou want to prove that your father bet on the wrong son.\n\n\n1979. 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.\n\n\nTrelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society which regards him with suspicion and confusion, greeting him with the puzzled question ‘What are you?’\n\n\nTheir eldest son Delano’s longing for a better future for his own children is equalled only by his recklessness in trying to secure it.\n\n\nAs both brothers navigate the obstacles littered in their path – an unreliable father, racism, a financial crisis and Hurricane Andrew – they find themselves pitted against one another. Will their rivalry be the thing that finally tears their family apart?\n\n\nThe thrilling linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You pulse with inimitable style, heart and barbed humour while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay checks. They announce Escoffery as a once in a generation talent and chronicler of life at its most gruesome and hopeful.\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Escoffery, Jonathan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41820152201293,"sku":"CONF20250526084","price":99.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9780008501228_20250518_084527.jpg?v=1748264480","url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/products\/buy-if-i-survive-you-jonathan-escoffery-conf20250526084","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}