If I Survive You

Trelawny is the younger son of Topper and Sanya, who came to Miami from Jamaica, and nobody around him, his family included, seems sure where a boy of his complexion fits. He goes north to study in the colder, less mixed Midwest, then returns to a run of strange and shady ways of earning money, one of which has him spying on a rich couple. His elder brother Delano, who works with trees, makes music and is their father's favourite, will do whatever it takes to give his own children a better life, including rushing to win a big job cutting trees ahead of a hurricane. Other stories follow their cousin Cukie, who goes out lobster fishing with a father he barely knows and learns more than that trade. Over the course of the book the brothers grow ever further apart.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States

First published

2022

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9780374605988 (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9781250872210 (Picador, United States)

9780008501211 (4th Estate, United Kingdom)

9780008685799 (4th Estate, United Kingdom)

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