Family Life

by Akhil Sharma and Akhil Sharma

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393060055
• ISBN13: 9780393060058
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"