What the Family Needed

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‘Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?’ This question leads to thirty years of discoveries, extraordinary strengths and closely guarded secrets. ‘To tell you the narrative concens a family whose members have superpowers is only to graze the surface of a moving and beautifully realised meditation on what it is to be an ordinary human being’Australian ‘A wonderful novel: imaginative, intelligent, empathetic… Like a cross between The Corrections and The Slap’ Sydney Morning Herald SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 ENCORE AWARD

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Weight 0.208 kg
Dimensions 1.9 × 13 × 19.7 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

288

Publisher

Year Published

2013-11-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099565935

About The Author

Steven Amsterdam was born in New York and has worked as a map editor, producer's assistant, and a pastry chef. He has lived in Melbourne, Australia since 2003, where he works as a writer and palliative care nurse. His debut novel, Things We Didn't See Coming, won The Age Book of the Year in Australia and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

A gem of a book…hugely entertaining and also quite moving

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