Family Life
Akhil Sharma
W. W. Norton & Company
<p>Winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award<br/><br/>"Gorgeously tender at its core...beautiful, heartstopping...Family Life really blazes." &#8212;Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review</p>Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision.<p>We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them,...