If I Survive You By: Jonathan Escoffery Published: September 6, 2022 Date Finished: January 14, 2024 Rating: 9/10 If I Survive You is a collection of 8 stories detailing the lives of a family that fled Jamaica for the United States in the 1970s because of the excessive violence. The book centers around Trelawny, the younger American-born son of Topper and Sonya. Trelawny struggles with his identity in Miami. He constantly asks his family “What am I?” and doesn’t seem to fit in with any group at his school. He goes through his whole life struggling to reconcile his Jamaican heritage with his American lived experience.
If I Survive You and the Philadelphia 76ers
If I Survive You and the Philadelphia 76ers
If I Survive You and the Philadelphia 76ers
If I Survive You By: Jonathan Escoffery Published: September 6, 2022 Date Finished: January 14, 2024 Rating: 9/10 If I Survive You is a collection of 8 stories detailing the lives of a family that fled Jamaica for the United States in the 1970s because of the excessive violence. The book centers around Trelawny, the younger American-born son of Topper and Sonya. Trelawny struggles with his identity in Miami. He constantly asks his family “What am I?” and doesn’t seem to fit in with any group at his school. He goes through his whole life struggling to reconcile his Jamaican heritage with his American lived experience.