If I Survive You

‘An astonishing, compassionate entrance to the literary scene' i Newspaper ‘All of life is here in unflinching detail: the fragility of existence, the American dream and the road not taken’ The Booker Prize Judges ‘A commanding debut from a talent to watch’ Observer ‘Brilliantly energetic… his talent feels fully formed and raring to go’ Financial Times ‘Unmissable… rare in that it has the heft and heart of a novel, with the refined finesse of the short story’ Irish Times ‘Jaunty, irrepressible and full of energy… A fine achievement’ Suzy Feay, Financial Times Weekend ‘Surges with the symphonic, imaginative, propulsive energy of Gabriel García Márquez’ Guardian ‘Fiction written at the highest level…There are no limits to where he will go’ Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House ‘Superb… a beautiful economy in the telling that never sacrifices the depth, complexity and richness of the worlds these characters inhabit’ Percival Everett, author of Erasure 'This I adore… Sumptuous and astute, excellent on the humiliations of familial and societal experience' Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People ‘An elegant meditation on belonging from a powerful new writer’ Nikesh Shukla, author of Brown Baby ‘A dazzling mirror held up to our identity-obsessed time’ Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde ‘A gifted, sure-footed storyteller’ New York Times ‘Like nothing you've read before’ Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings ‘A welcome reminder of what fiction can do’ Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind