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title: "When was the Family Life  written?"  
description: "When was the Family Life  written?"  
author: "Deepak Aiyappa"  
published: 2018-08-27  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48647/when-was-the-family-life-written  
category: "books & novels"  
tags: ["books and literature"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# When was the Family Life  written?

When was the [Family](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/43867/family-rv-parks-in-las-vegas-and-laughlin) Life written?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

**Akhil Sharma's autobiographical novel Family Life was published in 2014.** It is set in **1978** and chronicles the coming-of-age story of an **eight-year-old Indian kid named Ajay Mishra** who lives in**[New York City](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72392/why-to-go-for-seo-services-in-new-york)** with his newly emigrated family. The plot revolves around his older brother **Birju**, who has a life-altering injury, and the family's reaction to it. \
**Sharma's work was his second to be [published](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94006/once-content-is-published-how-do-you-promote-it). It won the Folio Prize in 2015 and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016.** \
![When was the Family Life  written?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/6cd3b7d5-2771-41cc-a566-4565e8cf6e15/images/b0880c49-5d22-4a10-87e4-21645b9556c3.jpeg)\
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In Family Life, Akhil Sharma tells a story that is both intense and precise in its emotional impact. We meet the **Mishra family in Delhi in 1978**, when Ajay, eight, and his older brother Birju, eight, play **cricket** in the streets while waiting for their plane tickets to arrive so that they and their mother can go across the world to join their father in **America**. When automatic glass doors open in front of the Mishras, they believe they've been mistaken for someone significant. When they press an elevator button, the elevator closes its doors and rises, they feel powerful since the elevator is obeying them. Life is idyllic until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother with severe brain damage and the other orphaned in an unfamiliar country. Ajay, the family's younger son, prays to a God he imagines as **Superman**, yearning to find his place among the rubble of his new life. \
Family Life is a universal narrative of a youngster divided between responsibility and his own survival that is both heartbreaking and darkly humorous.' \


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