Survival Math - Notes on an All-American Family

Mitchell Jackson

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Scribner, 2019

1501131702 / 9781501131707

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Families are often described as the building blocks of society, which sounds wonderfully sturdy until you?ve actually met one. In reality, most families resemble beautifully improvised engineering projects held together by love, loyalty, history, sheer determination and the occasional strategic argument over absolutely nothing. Survival Math is Mitchell S. Jackson?s powerful memoir of growing up in America, where every lesson in survival carried its own arithmetic, and every small victory had been earned the hard way. Set primarily in Portland, Oregon, Jackson reflects on childhood, family, race, poverty, violence, education and ambition with extraordinary honesty and remarkable literary flair. These are not neatly packaged life lessons tied up with motivational ribbons. Instead, they are lived experiences, examined with the benefit of hindsight but never stripped of their complexity. The result is a memoir that is both deeply personal and unmistakably rooted in the wider social realities of modern America. Jackson has an extraordinary gift for storytelling. He moves effortlessly between intimate family memories and broader reflections on inequality, identity and the systems that shape opportunity. The people who populate these pages are rendered with affection, frustration, humour and compassion in equal measure. Nobody is reduced to a stereotype or a simple moral lesson. Like most real families, they are contradictory, resilient, flawed and endlessly fascinating. The title itself is wonderfully apt. The mathematics explored here has very little to do with calculators or classroom equations. Instead, it concerns the constant calculations required to navigate difficult circumstances: deciding whom to trust, recognising danger, weighing risk against hope and finding ways to preserve dignity when the odds seem persistently unfavourable. It?s an education that never appears on a school timetable, yet one that countless people understand all too well. As sold by Crappy Old Books, this 2019 Scribner edition is in Very Good condition and offers an outstanding read for anyone interested in memoir, contemporary American life, social history or beautifully crafted literary non-fiction. Jackson writes with intelligence, empathy and an ear for language that elevates everyday experience into something both universal and unforgettable. His prose is vivid without becoming showy, thoughtful without ever losing its emotional immediacy. Perhaps the greatest irony of Survival Math is that, despite its title, there are no tidy formulas to be found within its pages. Life stubbornly refuses to balance like a textbook equation, and families rarely follow predictable patterns. What Jackson offers instead is something considerably more valuable: a compassionate account of resilience, identity and belonging that reminds us people cannot be reduced to statistics, headlines or assumptions. In an age increasingly fond of easy answers, this is a book that celebrates the complicated truth?and somehow makes it feel profoundly hopeful at the same time.

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Titolo
Survival Math - Notes on an All-American Family
Autore
Mitchell Jackson
Editore
Scribner
Anno di pubblicazione
2019
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Hardback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1501131702
ISBN 13
9781501131707

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