Family Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

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"