Author Jonathan Escoffery's 'If I Survive You' explores Jamaican-American immigrant experience

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Aug. 4, 2023, after "If I Survive You" was long-listed for Booker Prize. Find the audio here.

Here & Now's Deepa Fernades speaks with author Jonathan Escoffery about his debut short-story collection "If I Survive You." The stories follow the lives of a family from Jamaica and their American-born son. The book was long-listed for this year's National Book Award for fiction.

By Jonathan Escoffery

Excerpted from"If I Survive You" by Jonathan Escoffery. Published by MCD, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 2022 by Jonathan Escoffery. All rights reserved.