Download or read book Family Life written by Akhil Sharma and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, pushed on by their ambitious parents. But then everything changes. Birju has an accident that leaves him brain-damaged, and the world around Ajay collapses. His father begins to drink, his mother takes to prayer, and it is Ajay who must now bear all the guilty weight of their love.