Full name: Family Life: A Novel

Author: Akhil Sharma Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction Culture: India Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393060058 0393060055

For eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju, family life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing day-long games of cricket in the street. Everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water - and the Mishras, envy of their neighbourhood back home, become the latest unknowns in the vast expanse of New York.Life in America is extraordinary, and as snows and summers come and go the brothers adjust to their exciting new world of prosperity, girls and 24-hour TV. But then comes the hot, sultry day when everything falls apart: tragedy turns the Mishras' American dream into a living nightmare and young Ajay finds himself lost and virtually orphaned in a land that is not his own. Similar books: An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda The Konkans by Tony D'Souza The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan Cromartie vs The God Shiva by Rumer Godden Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee If Today Be Sweet by Thrity Umrigar Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali 2 States by Chetan Bhagat The Writing On My Forehead by Nafisa Haji Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy Brick Lane by Monica Ali Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri A Son Of The Circus by John Irving