If I survive you
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 reces...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
MCD ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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." |
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| Physical Description: | 260 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374605988 037460598X |
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