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SUMMARY:Paradise City Readers: If I Survive You
DESCRIPTION:Paradise City Readers is a small inclusive community of 
 readers. We get together to talk about a diversity of books\, written by a 
 variety of authors\, and an even wider range of topics. On the first Monday 
 of every month we assemble for discussion inspired by a selected book. You 
 don’t have to read the entire book to join with us. You really don’t 
 have to read even part of the book at the center of our gathering. But it 
 does help. All are warmly welcome.\n\nThis month's discussion will be about 
 If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery.\n\nAbout the book: \n\nIn the 
 1970s\, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their 
 native Kingston. But America\, as the couple and their two children learn\, 
 is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants\, 
 the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 
 recession\, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself 
 out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart\, the 
 family remains motivated\, often to its own detriment\, by what the younger 
 son\, Trelawny\, calls “the exquisite\, racking compulsion to 
 survive.”\n\nMasterfully constructed with heart and humor\, the linked 
 stories in Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he 
 struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster\, 
 racism\, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper\, Trelawny claws 
 his way out of homelessness through a series of odd\, often hilarious jobs. 
 Meanwhile\, his brother\, Delano\, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get 
 his kids back\, and his cousin Cukie looks for a father who doesn’t want 
 to be found. As each character searches for a foothold\, they never forget 
 the profound danger of climbing without a safety net.\n\nPulsing with 
 vibrant lyricism and inimitable style\, sly commentary and contagious 
 laughter\, Escoffery’s debut unravels what it means to be in between 
 homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. 
 With If I Survive You\, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious 
 storyteller in a class of his own\, a chronicler of American life at its 
 most gruesome and hopeful.\n\n \n\n
LOCATION:Community Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Events, Book Discussions, Recurring Events
CONTACT;CN="Forbes Library":MAILTO:info@forbeslibrary.org
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