Jonathan Escoffery
American writer from Miami, Florida, and the son of Jamaican immigrants. He is the author of the linked story collection If I Survive You (2022), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and received widespread acclaim.
Books
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1. If I Survive You
A linked collection follows a Jamaican immigrant family in Miami, centering on a son who ricochets between identities and hustles as he searches for belonging. After political violence pushes his parents to the U.S., the family contends with racism, hurricanes, eviction, and frayed loyalties, while brotherly rivalry and parental expectations complicate every choice. With propulsive humor and tenderness, the episodes chart precarious work, reinvention, and the uneasy calculus of survival in America.
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