Family biography book

Somewhere in the middle of Akhil Sharma’s novel, Family Life, the narrator, Ajay Mishra, whose childhood is what the novel is about, starts a literary journey. He reads a biography of Ernest Hemingway before reading any fiction works by the American writer.

In ninth grade at that point, he fantasizes about becoming a writer and goes on to read critical essays on Hemingway. An essay tells him that “…Hemingway got away with writing plainly because he wrote about exotic things.” Thereafter, Ajay reads Hemingway’s novels and stories, developing his own understanding.

This is a manual with questions one could use to spur conversation about prior lives, in a format that allows documentation of aspects that could be easily.

A profile of the extraordinary nineteenth-century American family recounts their reactions to one another, to contemporary writers and thinkers.

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After some months, he decides to write a story himself. His mind is clear: “…I knew that I should just push all the exotic things to the side as if they didn’t matter, that this was how one used exoticism—by not bothering to explain.”

In Family Life, an Indian family of four—a married couple and their two sons, Ajay and Birju—migrate to America.

Months after settling in, Birju, the elder son,