Family Life by Akhil Sharma - Pengiun Books

Family Life

Language: English

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Authors: Akhil Sharma

Category: Fiction

Publication: Pengiun Books

Pages: 229

Binding: Paperback

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It is the late 1970s. India has been wrenched by the Emergency. Like countless Indian children, Ajay and Birju are taken by their parents to America so they can have a better life. In New York, their flat is tiny, the students at their school racist. Like all striving Asian children, Ajay and Birju forge ahead, pushed on by their ambitious parents. But then everything changes. Birju has an accident that leaves him brain-damaged, and the world around Ajay collapses. His father begins to drink, his mother takes to prayer, and it is Ajay who must now bear all the guilty weight of their love.

Dark, sardonic, and written with biting wit and observation, Family Life is a superb portrait of one dysfunctional family that speaks to all families.

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