If I Survive You
International Dublin Literary Award · 2024 · ShortlistBooker Prize · 2023 · ShortlistPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · 2023 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2024 | Shortlist |
| Booker Prize | 2023 | Shortlist |
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2023 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Seven linked stories follow Trelawny—the son of Jamaican immigrants growing up in Miami—and his family through the 1980s and 1990s, confronting questions of race, belonging, and identity as Hurricane Andrew approaches. A powerful debut about what it means to be Black in America when you are also neither fully American nor fully Jamaican.
About the Author
Jonathan EscofferyAmerican
Jonathan Escoffery is an American writer born in 1987, of Jamaican heritage, raised in Miami. His debut short story collection If I Survive You (2022) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. The collection explores Jamaican-American immigrant experience in Miami across generations. Read more →
