Akhil Sharma author of Family Life
b'"Outstanding\\u2026Every page is alive and surprising, proof of [Sharma\\u2019s] huge, unique talent."\\u2014David Sedaris
Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision.
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