Family Life by Akhil Sharma - This is a novel that is so personal and so painful that you can't stop reading because on every page there is hope for a better outcome. It's about an immigrant family from India in the 1970s, and is told by the younger son both as a man and as a boy. His observations are so cultural and so sharp that as you read you both want and don't want the story to be true to life. At the end, at least in my copy of the book, there is an author interview which hints at just enough of an answer to satisfy the questions. I couldn't put this down, and found it to be compelling from its immigrant and cultural attitude of confidence, fear and insecurity. To say anymore would be to give the story away and this begs to be read afresh with no idea of what is to come. If you like a modern story about Indian culture, you can't go wrong here.
Monday, May 11, 2015
FAMILY LIFE
Family Life by Akhil Sharma - This is a novel that is so personal and so painful that you can't stop reading because on every page there is hope for a better outcome. It's about an immigrant family from India in the 1970s, and is told by the younger son both as a man and as a boy. His observations are so cultural and so sharp that as you read you both want and don't want the story to be true to life. At the end, at least in my copy of the book, there is an author interview which hints at just enough of an answer to satisfy the questions. I couldn't put this down, and found it to be compelling from its immigrant and cultural attitude of confidence, fear and insecurity. To say anymore would be to give the story away and this begs to be read afresh with no idea of what is to come. If you like a modern story about Indian culture, you can't go wrong here.
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