This year’s longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction includes eight débuts, and only one nominee has been honored by the NBAwards before. See them all.
Jonathan Escoffery’s collection of interlinked short stories, “If I Survive You,” follows a Jamaican family living in Miami as they fight to survive amid racism, recession, and Hurricane Andrew. The book, which ranges between the first, second, and third person, and the past, present, and future tenses, “feels thrillingly free,” Katy Waldman.
Escoffery’s collection is one of eight fiction débuts on the longlist for this year’s National Book Award for Fiction, along with “When We Were Sisters,” by Fatimah Asghar; “The Town of Babylon,” by Alejandro Varela; “All This Could Be Different,” by Sarah Thankam Mathews; “Nobody Gets Out Alive,” by Leigh Newman; “The Rabbit Hutch,” by Tess Gunty; “Maria, Maria: & Other Stories,” by Marytza K. Rubio; and “Shutter,” by Ramona Emerson.
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