His debut, If I Survive You, about a second-generation Jamaican in Miami, where Escoffery grew up, was shortlisted for last year's Booker and is currently on the shortlist of the Gordon Burn prize, announced on 7 March.
It's truly a feat that a book of short stories tackling such big stuff family, love, violence, race could be so damn funny.
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