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For eight year old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju, family life in Delhi in the late 1970's follows a comfortable routine. Everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water. But tragedy turns the Mishras' American dream sour and young Ajay finds himself lost and virtually orphaned in a land that is not his own.
This book is Winner Of The Folio Prize 2015. For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water on tap. Life is exciting for the two brothers as they adjust to prosperity, girls and 24-hour TV, until one hot, sultry day when everything falls apart. Darkly comic, Family Life is a story of a boy torn between duty and survival amid the ruins of everything he once knew.
