If I Survive You (Hardback)

'Its riches are plentiful - Escoffery's prose regularly stopped me in my tracks ... [an] astonishing, compassionate entrance to the literary scene' - i Newspaper

'A ravishing debut... the book feels thrillingly free' - New Yorker

'A gifted, sure-footed storyteller... a disarming, irreverent sense of humor... makes me eager to read him for a long time to come' - New York Times

'Exposes uncomfortable social truths with fine details, wit and dazzling verbal versatility' - Los Angeles Times

'I highly recommend this debut-astonishingly compact and engaging fiction, and a dazzling mirror held up to our identity-obsessed time' - Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde

'It's rare for a story collection to break out of the gate with as much buzz as Escoffery's debut... the author exposes uncomfortable social truths with fine details, wit and dazzling verbal versatility' - Los Angeles Times

'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory and like nothing you've read before' - Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

'This I adore... sumptuous and astute, excellent on the humiliations of familial and societal experience, triumphant in its spirited retaliation. An absolute delight' - Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People