Title: Family Life
Author: Akhil Sharma
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Summary: I'm getting lazy with this one. I'm going to steal from Amazon's description: We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family’s younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family’s new life.
Review: Here I am, behind again. I read this a few months ago and I gave it four stars but I can't remember why. So....trust me? In all seriousness, it was an extremely well-written book and to see the changes to this family when tragedy struck was sad yet accurate (or so I would imagine).
Time to write: 1:30
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