'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
takes its name from the calculations that award-winning author
Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon, of his
youth. This dynamic book explores gangs and guns, near-death
experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept
of 'hustle' and the destructive power of addiction - all framed
within the story of Jackson, his family and his community. Mitchell
S. Jackson presents a microcosm of struggle and survival in
contemporary urban America - an exploration of the forces that
shaped his life, his city, and the lives of so many black men like
him. As Jackson charts his own path from drug dealer to published
novelist, he gives us a heartbreaking, fascinating, lovingly
rendered view of the injustices and victories, large and small,
that defined his youth. 'Jackson's mesmerizing voice and style
draws you into the survival calculations for millions of American
kids and families, revealing a need-to-know reality for all of us'
PIPER KERMAN, author of Orange is the New Black 'Jackson's musings
skillfully illuminate the bloodlines, both inherited and earned,
that pulse through the body of America's gang-graffitied carceral
state' TYEHIMBA JESS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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