Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life and A Life of Adventure and Delight. He’s a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and has won a bunch of awards including the PEN/Hemingway Award, Guggenheim, and International Dublin Literary Award. He’s also a professor at Duke University.


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