Family Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393060058)

Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision.

Growing up in Delhi in 1978, eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju play cricket on the streets, eagerly waiting for the day they can join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more--until tragedy strikes. Young Ajay prays to a God he envisions as Superman, searching for direction amid the ruins of his family's new life. Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival.

Author: Akhil Sharma
ISBN-10: 0393060055
ISBN-13: 9780393060058
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2014
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.78w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2013 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2013
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 103
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2014
Booklist 03/15/2014 pg. 48
Entertainment Weekly 04/11/2014 pg. 70
New York Times Book Review 04/13/2014 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 04/06/2014 pg. 1
People Weekly 04/28/2014 pg. 54
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 46
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 29
New York Times Book Review 12/14/2014 pg. 10
People 03/09/2015 pg. 52
New York Times Book Review 03/22/2015 pg. 28
Library Journal 11/01/2013