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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'An absolute delight to read' Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People

LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION, THE PEN/JEAN STEIN OPEN BOOK AWARD, THE PEN/BINGHAM PRIZE, THE 2023 CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, AND THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level." -Ann Patchett NATIONAL BESTSELLER . ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIE...

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Wenn leben heißt, der Welt zu trotzen Selbst innerhalb seiner Familie ist Trelawny ein Außenseiter. Als Einziger ist er in Miami geboren. Seine Eltern, Topper und Sanya, sowie sein Bruder Delano sind vor der Gewalt auf Jamaica hierher geflohen. Die Vereinigten Staaten sind für sie nie wirklich ein Zuhause geworden. Sie alle kämpfen darum, irgendwie einen Fuß auf den Boden zu bekommen - gegen Ausgrenzung und Armut, gegen Heimatlosigkeit und ...

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 first 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 ...

Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'A compelling hurricane of a book' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. 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 first through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008...