If I Survive You

'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory and like nothing you've read before. These are the stories that we never believed could be told, until Jonathan Escoffery told them' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings '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. This is a compelling hurricane of a book that sweeps the past, present and future together into one inextricable knot. This is where Jonathan Escoffrey's career begins. There are no limits to where he will go' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House 'An electrifying, enthralling debut about identity and belonging. Jonathan Escoffery illuminates both beauty and trauma and the ways in which so many of us Jamaicans are still looking for home within ourselves. Told with humor and clear-eyed grace, this spectacular collection introduces us to an amazing new voice' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun 'It's truly a feat that a book of short stories tackling such big stuff-family, love, violence, race-could be so damn funny. Jonathan Escoffery is a writer only just getting started, and his first book is a welcome reminder of what fiction can do' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind 'If I Survive You is a collection of brilliant wit, real heart and electric humour. Jonathan Escoffery masterfully mines from his life and emerges, in this debut, as a talent not to be ignored.' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black 'These are superb stories about identity, family and place. There is a beautiful economy in the telling that never sacrifices the depth, complexity and richness of the worlds these characters inhabit. Escoffery's is a strong, much needed new voice in our literature' Percival Everett author of Erasure