Survival Math by Mitchell S. Jackson - ISBN: 9780349701332
Hardcover
Urban survival, race, and redemption: a powerful story masterfully told.

Survival Math

Notes on an All-American Family

  • Hardcover

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    10 October 2019

Summary

A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Intimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You have to read this beautiful book

CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild

An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the conversation about race and class, Survival Math

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349701332
ISBN-10:0349701334
Author:Mitchell S. Jackson
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:Dialogue Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:10 October 2019
Weight:580g
Dimensions:236mm x 158mm x 36mm
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Critics Review

Survival Math is the best memoir I’ve read in ages. It’s intimate and wise; poignant and compassionate; redemptive and raw. You have to read this beautiful book

About The Author

Mitchell S. Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He holds a masters in writing from Portland State University and an MFA from New York University. Jackson has received a Whiting Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. The Residue Years was also a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. Jackson has been awarded fellowships from TED, the Lannan Foundation and the Centre for Fiction. He teaches writing at NYU and Columbia.

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