Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life, a New York Times
Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International
DUBLIN Literary
Award and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared in The New
Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry
Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City
and teaches English at Rutgers University–Newark.
"[H]aunting, revelatory stories. . . . Sharma is boldly
forthright and probing. Focusing exclusively on Indian characters,
both in Delhi and in the New York metropolitan area, he brings a
keen cultural awareness to each of these stories. . . . perceptive,
humane, and pointed."
*New York Times Book Review*
"Sharma's sentences are simple, but what they add up to is so
curious and complex."
*David Sedaris - Parade*
"[E]ight divine stories about all-too-human relationships."
*Elle*
"If you love short story collections, this one’s for you. A Life of
Adventure and Delight offers a window into the Indian experience
both in America and abroad. Author Akhil Sharma’s characters aren’t
perfect — they wrestle with belonging, tradition, and temptation —
but they’re heartbreakingly real and relatable, even at their
worst."
*Hello Giggles*
"Those seeking quiet moments of revelation will find them
here."
*Publishers Weekly*
"These stories have a psychological acuity that redeems their dark
worldview."
*Kirkus*
"The stories in Akhil Sharma’s A Life of Adventure and Delight
sweep across the page like monsoons—filled with energy, chaos,
surprise, and rapture, they ravish and transform the very nature of
reading."
*Adam Johnson, National Book Award–winning author of Fortune
Smiles*
"One reads Akhil Sharma’s stories as one might watch waves approach
the shore on which one stands, understanding that something unseen
and powerful is driving them. The waves and the stories are
beautiful, deceptively simple, and potentially dangerous."
*Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The
Sympathizer*
"Readers wade into these stories as though stepping into a calm
river only to be caught by the undercurrent of the most devastating
kind—the demand of everyday existence. Akhil Sharma’s words touch
the deep experience that often remains wordless. He is truly the
Chekhov of our time."
*Yiyun Li, author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in
Your Life*
"Akhil Sharma’s deceptively simple diction has a way of cutting
straight to the human bone. The stories in A Life of Adventure and
Delight are revelations, every one."
*Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls and
Everybody’s Fool*
"Akhil Sharma keeps getting better. A Life of Adventure and Delight
puts him in the rarest company: Chekhov company. Trevor company. I
can’t think of many others. These stories are as clear as
truth."
*Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and More Than It Hurts You*
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