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"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. There are no limits to where Jonathan Escoffery will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
"Torian Brackett's skillful narration fully embodies the family at the center of this moving audiobook."- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)
"These painful dissonances are rendered in an appropriately fractured and brilliantly energetic narrative style that might have been constructed with reading aloud in mind. Point of view shifts between first, second and third-person voices and stories unfold in Jamaican patois, black American slang and impersonal authority-speak, as narrator Torian Brackett scampers up and down the register, deploying humour and fury in a wonderfully modulated and empathetic performance."- Financial Times
"If I Survive You, the debut of rising star Jonathan Escoffery (Macmillan Audio, 8 hours and 45 minutes), is read by Torian Brackett, whose voice is the ideal instrument for this dazzling collection of linked stories, moving fluidly in and out of Jamaican patois, using first-, second-, and third-person narration to show different angles on brothers Delano and Trelawny, their cousin Cukie, their families, their schoolmates, their employers, and their girlfriends."- Kirkus
A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.
In 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 first 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 their younger son, Trelawny, calls “the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.”
Masterfully 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—himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica—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.
Pulsing 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 white supremacy. 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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De: Paul Lynch
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Held
- A Novel
- De: Anne Michaels
- Narrado por: Anne Michaels
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures
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Would give six stars if possible
- De love it en 08-31-24
De: Anne Michaels
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This Other Eden
- De: Paul Harding
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland.
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Painfully overwritten
- De WPH en 02-24-23
De: Paul Harding
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Study for Obedience
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Bernstein
- Narrado por: Sarah Bernstein
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate.'
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Took some time to come around, but I really appreciate this work
- De Amy G en 08-08-24
De: Sarah Bernstein
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The House of Doors
- De: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrado por: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert’s, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings—and the freedom to travel with Gerald.
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Great, but no “Garden”
- De Susan en 10-30-23
De: Tan Twan Eng
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Western Lane
- De: Chetna Maroo
- Narrado por: Maya Soroya
- Duración: 4 h y 21 m
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Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo. But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.
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Quiet story that is really interesting
- De Garth en 06-11-23
De: Chetna Maroo
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Pearl
- De: Siân Hughes
- Narrado por: Laura Brydon
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s love; the smell of fresh herbs, the games they played, and the songs and stories of her childhood. As time passes, Marianne struggles to adjust, fixated on her mother’s disappearance and the secrets she’s sure her father is keeping from her.
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a meditation of memory, grief, and motherhood.
- De Barbara S en 10-08-23
De: Siân Hughes
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- De: Shehan Karunatilaka
- Narrado por: Shivantha Wijesinha
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali.
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Absolutely Splendid...
- De Paul Frandano en 02-07-23
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The Bee Sting
- A Novel
- De: Paul Murray
- Narrado por: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, y otros
- Duración: 26 h y 10 m
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The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away.
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Bone Clocks meets Jonathan Franzen
- De Cranson en 10-26-23
De: Paul Murray
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A Spell of Good Things
- A Novel
- De: Ayobami Adebayo
- Narrado por: Babajide Oyekunle, Ore Apampa
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers, begging when he must, dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of an ascendant politician.
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Horrible ending
- De Trish en 09-12-23
De: Ayobami Adebayo
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Creation Lake
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Kushner
- Narrado por: Rachel Kushner
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.
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Author should not have been the reader
- De Raj A. en 09-11-24
De: Rachel Kushner
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The Rabbit Hutch
- A Novel
- De: Tess Gunty
- Narrado por: Tess Gunty, Scott Brick, Suzanne Toren, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana.
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when will we stop romanticizing pedophilia
- De Kindle Customer en 08-18-22
De: Tess Gunty
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The Safekeep
- De: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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Beautiful. Unexpected.
- De cm en 01-15-25
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The Trees
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.
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Mindless repetitive bigotry
- De Catherine Spiller en 03-27-23
De: Percival Everett
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Stone Yard Devotional
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte Wood
- Narrado por: Ailsa Piper
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.
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A profound inward journey
- De Kathlene barrett en 02-17-25
De: Charlotte Wood
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Great Circle
- A Novel
- De: Maggie Shipstead
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Alex McKenna
- Duración: 25 h y 16 m
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After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There—after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes—Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe.
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So glad I was drawn to this book.
- De timbo en 05-23-21
De: Maggie Shipstead
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This Strange Eventful History
- De: Claire Messud
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara; of Chloe, the result of that union.
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Be Prepared for a Jarring Narration
- De Thomp/Suis en 05-17-24
De: Claire Messud
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Orbital
- De: Samantha Harvey
- Narrado por: Sarah Naudi
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below.
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Dull
- De ELLEZEE en 02-03-24
De: Samantha Harvey
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre If I Survive You
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- CB
- 08-21-23
Not what I expected
Good book but depressing. From a literary perspective I can see why this is long- listed for the 2023 Booker.
But the performance/ narration was great in sone places but fell short with the main protagonist Trelawney. I did not like the whiney and child-like voice of this character. The other “voices” were fantastic.
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- 05-31-24
Excellent writer, excellent, excellent book, superb narrator.
It is impossible to describe how well-written and good this book is. I listened to the same chapters, especially the first one, over and over again, just to enjoy them a 2nd, then 3rd, 4th time. The writer is gifted.
The narrator was superb.
A big thank you to both the writer and the narrator for providing such a rewarding experience.
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- Carolyn Prentice
- 07-22-23
Welcome to a delightful character
The voicing brought the characters to life in a beautiful way. You certainly are able to join this family with their trials and escapades.
The author brings the reader in with charm and openness; a book that entertains.
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- Lindsay
- 11-05-23
Great book, easy fast listen
Loved it, very insightful and flew by as an enjoyable listen, I highly recommend it
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- Marissa Gantman
- 01-03-23
Excellent narration, beautiful family story
I really enjoyed this book and the author’s unique voice and tone which (imo) were perfectly captured by the talented narrator. The narrator moved deftly among different characters and accents and pulled it off with great skill. I alternated reading and listening and was drawn in by both forms of the book, which tells a realistic and compelling story of a family paddling the currents of life in America.
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- barbara
- 01-19-24
Loved this beyond all possible reason
One of the best books in a long long time. Highly recommend. Read it right away.
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- Tommy
- 04-11-24
Jumped from story to story
Weaved stories together that were unrelated about the Jamaican experience in America and Jamaica…very interesting and engaging.
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- Morris Nelms
- 11-20-22
Good except for the ending
This was an interesting book, and the author has plenty to say. The audiobook made it easier to understand, because the narrator gets the dialects and makes them come alive. I felt like the ending was an example of running out of paper, or ink, or time, or something. Some great moments along the way, though.
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- Jeanette H.
- 10-08-22
Not up to par
I am really sad that this book was so disappointing. As a Jamaican I was excited for the storyline and thought it would have some substance. Instead, it's a very disjointed story with fake accents and not so believable people. The end is not tied up and doesn't present as if there might be a book 2.
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- D. James
- 02-15-24
Good Story
This book was recommended to me by a family member. First off good recommendation! I enjoyed the story. Had some laugh out loud moments. I would have preferred the narrator to have been someone who was able to speak the Jamaican dialect. While I understand that our patios has many different nuances, (depending on where in Jamaica you are from) his attempt at speaking our ‘language’ had me cringing the entire story. I would recommend reading the book if you’re Jamaican, so you can actually concentrate on the story and not on the reader.
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