About the Author:
Akhil Sharma is the author of An Obedient Father, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark.
Review:
Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian immigrant experience with great empathy and a complete lack of sentimentality. --Ann Packer
It will cut your heart to pieces but it will also make you rejoice. --Gary Shteyngart
A nearly perfect novel. --Edmund White
Sharma is a rare master. --Kiran Desai
A loving portrait, both painful and honest.
There's nothing like the pleasure of being devastated by a short novel. Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian immigrant experience with great empathy and a complete lack of sentimentality. Family Life is a dark and thrilling accomplishment by a wildly gifted writer. --Ann Packer"
Family Life will cut your heart to pieces but it will also make you rejoice. The language, the humor, the sophistication, the empathy, the insight all signal a new kind of literature about families and the bonds with which they hold us tight. --Gary Shteyngart"
This is a wonderful novel by an excellent writer. Akhil Sharma's unsentimentality has the effect of making his writing uncommonly touching. --Mohsin Hamid"
Family Life is a terse, devastating account of growing up as a brilliant outsider in American culture. It is a nearly perfect novel. --Edmund White"
Sharma is a rare master at charting the frailties and failures, the cruelties and rages, the altering moods and contradictions, whims and perversities of a tragic cast of characters. But this most unsentimental writer leaves the reader, finally and surprisingly, moved. --Kiran Desai"
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