Family Life: A Novel

Author: Akhil Sharma
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels Winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award "Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes." —Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family’s younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family’s new life. Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival.

The Nitty-gritty of Family Life

Author: Joy Wilt Berry
Publisher: Educational Products Division Word
ISBN: 9780849981241
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
An introduction to the family, including relationships and roles of family members and rules and responsibilities that make family life healthy and happy.

Family Life Education

Author: Stephen F. Duncan
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 148338456X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 521

Book Description
Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard provide a practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. This thoroughly updated Third Edition of Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach begins by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourages readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. Readers then learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and -principles of social marketing to promote programs.

Family Life

Author: Kevin Swanson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996171984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

On Marriage and Family Life

Author: Saint John Chrysostom
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456636537
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
Inspired by the epistles of St Paul, St John Chrysostom has many important and practical things to say to Christian couples and families.

The Stuff of Family Life

Author: Michelle Janning
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442254807
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
Does putting your smartphone on the dinner table impact your relationships? How does where you place your TV in your home affect your family? The Stuff of Family Life takes readers inside the changing world of families through a unique examination of their stuff. From digital family photo albums to the growing popularity of “man caves,” author Michelle Janning looks at not only what large demographic studies say about family dynamics but also what our lives—and the stuff in them—say about how we relate to each other. The book takes readers through various phases of family life, including dating, marriage, parenting, divorce, and aging, while paying attention to how our choices about our spaces and objects impact our lives. Janning has joked, “I'm not a social scientist who uses large national datasets to illustrate family life; I’m the social scientist who asks people to examine what’s in their underwear drawers to tell stories about their family life.” From underwear drawers to calendars, The Stuff of Family Life offers an illuminating and entertaining look at the complexities of American families today.

Family Life

Author: Jesper Juul
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468579290
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
This book captures the essence of modern family life. Much has changed since our own childhoods; the good old days. Todays parents are challenged by the need to invent their own parenting style. This can only happen from within, based on our personal values and boundaries. Jesper Juul puts it very clearly: The love we feel for our children and our partners does not in itself have any value. It has no value at all until it is converted into loving behavior. Each chapter focuses on the values that form a solid platform on which to build a family: Equal dignity, Integrity, Authenticity and Responsibility. This makes family life more meaningful and parents avoid living frantically from conflict to conflict, desperately searching for quick solutions and trying to adapt to the most popular parenting technique of the day. A book full of everyday examples and practical ideas.

The Intentional Father

Author: Jon Tyson
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493430327
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Self-initiation is killing our young men. Without strong mentors, boys are walking alone into a wilderness of conflicting messages about who they should be as men. It's no wonder that our sons are confused about what the world expects from them and what they should expect of themselves. The Intentional Father is the antidote. This concise book is filled with practical steps to help men raise sons of consequence--young men who know what they believe, know who they are, and will stand up against the negative cultural trends of our day. Jon Tyson lays out a clear path for fathers and sons that includes specific activities, rites of passage, and significant "marking moments" that can be customized to fit any family. It's not enough to hope our sons will become good men. We need them to be good at being men. This book shows how fathers, grandfathers, and other male mentors can lead the way.

Love and Family Life

Author: Swami Rama
Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press
ISBN: 9780893891336
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Guides the reader to understand the interplay between loving relationships and the path to spirituality.

Jewish Family and Life

Author: Yosef I. Abramowitz
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780307440860
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
A guide for Jewish families on how to incorporate Jewish traditions into their lives including bedtime and morning rituals, the meaning of the holidays, and advice on communicating codes of behavior to children.