Write of passage: A molten grief below
31 March 2015 - 02:00
The lure of the American dream was felt far beyond its own shores during the 20th century. In Akhil Sharma's remarkable second novel, Family Life, which opens in 1978, Mrs Mishra is treated with prickly jealousy by her Delhi neighbours after her husband, having settled in New York, sends them plane tickets.
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