Family Life | |
Author: | Akhil Sharma |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Autobiographical novel |
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pub Date: | April 7, 2014 |
Media Type: | Print (hardback and paperback) Digital (ebook) |
Pages: | 224 (US hardback edition) |
Awards: | Folio Prize (2015) International Dublin Literary Award (2016) |
Isbn: | 978-0-393-06005-8 |
Family Life is a 2014 autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma. Set in 1978, it tells the coming-of-age story of an eight-year old Indian boy named Ajay Mishra living with his recently immigrated family in New York City. The story develops around his older brother Birju, who suffers a life-changing accident, and how the family copes with the incident.[1] [2] [3]
This was Sharma's second published novel. It won the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.[4] [5]