Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma is the author of An Obedient Father, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark.Read moreRead less
Family Life (PB)
It is the late 1970s. India has been wrenched by the Emergency. Ajay and Birju are taken by their parents to America so they can have a better life. In New York, their flat is tiny, the students at their school racist. The brothers forge ahead, pushe
Family Life (PB)
It is the late 1970s. India has been wrenched by the Emergency. Ajay and Birju are taken by their parents to America so they can have a better life. In New York, their flat is tiny, the students at their school racist. The brothers forge ahead, pushe
Life of Adventure and Delight, A (PB)
"Sharma's sentences are simple, but what they add up to is so curious and complex"--David SedarisA young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day, surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcé tries to become the perfect
Life of Adventure and Delight, A (PB)
"Sharma's sentences are simple, but what they add up to is so curious and complex"--David SedarisA young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day, surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcé tries to become the perfect
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