Family Life: A Novel

  ALSO BY AKHIL SHARMA

  An Obedient Father

  Copyright © 2014 by Akhil Sharma

  All rights reserved

  First Edition

  For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110

  For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact W. W. Norton Special Sales at specialsales@wwnorton.com or 800-233-4830

  Book design by Chris Welch

  Production manager: Anna Oler

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Sharma, Akhil, 1971-

  Family life : a novel / Akhil Sharma. — First Edition.

  pages cm

  ISBN 978-0-393-06005-8 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-0-393-24231-7 (e-book)

  1. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 2. Families—Fiction. 3. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

  PS3569.H34287F36 2014

  813’.54—dc23

  2013041222

  W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110

  www.wwnorton.com

  W. W. Norton & Company Ltd.

  Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT