Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family(Simon & Schuster) doubles down on Jackson’s unique style and digs deeper into the social, historical, and political contexts that shape the lives of many Black Americans. Fans of The Residue Years’ multiple perspectives and frenzied cadence will not be disappointed his latest work. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and a Whiting Writer’s Award and established Jackson as a major new voice in contemporary American Literature. The novel, which explores the challenges of growing up Black in a neglected neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, during the 1990s crack epidemic, won both the Ernest J. Winner Ernest J.Readers have been eager for a follow-up to Mitchell Jackson’s autobiographical novel The Residue Yearssince its 2014 release. Honest in its portrayal, with cadences that dazzle, The Residue Years signals the arrival of a writer set to awe. In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. Champ is trying to do right by his mum and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. Grace is just out of a drug treatment programme, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Jackson writes what it was like to come of age in that time and place, with a breakout voice that's nothing less than extraordinary.
In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighbourhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn Ward 'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit.
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