What the Family Needed

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

Summary

'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

Product details

• Authors: Steven Amsterdam, Amsterdam Steven
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9780099565932
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956593-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Family life fiction, Magical Realism, Narrative theme: Love and relationships