Akhil sharma writers digest

  • Akhil Sharma is the author of the short-story collection A Life of Adventure and Delight as well as the novels Family Life and An Obedient Father.
  • The Trick of Life.
  • This Bildungsroman setup is framed in a harsh story of family drama and suffering, as brain damage and alcoholism take a toll on a family that.

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    Akhil Sharma taught a fiction workshop at the 2015 Aspen Summer Words.

    BIO
    Akhil Sharma immigrated to the United States when he was eight, and studied at Princeton University, where he earned his B.A. in public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship to the writing program at Stanford, where he won several O. Henry Prizes. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2001 Whiting Writers’ Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His second novel, Family Life, is mostly autobiographical and was published to critical acclaim in 2014. He has also published stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Best American Short Stories anthology, and The O. Henry Prize story anthology. Sharma is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.

    “Writing Home” at Summer Words 2015
    Featuring: Richard Russo, Hannah Tinti, and Akhil Sharma
    Moderated by Maurice LaMee



    Aspen Public Radio interviewed Akhil on First Draft, a program that highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts.

    PRESS
    ‘Family Life’ Author to Teach at Summer Words 
    Aspen Times, Andrew Travers, June 22, 2

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         I had heard about Akhil Sharma's "Family Life" a lot when it was released more than an year ago and since then I wanted to read it. But no one had told me that its a tragic story. As I am done reading this novel which is not quite lengthy, I have a totally different kind of emotional turmoil in my head. I am unable to understand if I liked the book or not. It is kind of a memoir and autobiographical narration where a small boy starts telling his story in terms of how each of his family members are. He tells about the relationship each one of them share with each other. As the book progresses, the story keeps taking leap and it finally reaches to making the protagonist earn his graduation degree in the climax.     

              The story mainly focuses on many emotions that the protagonist goes through in his life and how his thoughts keep getting changed with age. The book moves very slowly which might make people leave it in between as even I found it hard to continue with it after some 35-40 pages. No conversation is described in the book but only the thought process of the boy who is telling his story. It is all fine until he is in school but the quality of narration and language

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