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Life of Adventure and Delight
Life of Adventure and Delight | Akhil Sharma
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Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In A Life of Adventure and Delight, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorce tries to become the perfect partner by reading women's magazines. A man's longstanding contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman.Tender and darkly comic, the protagonists in A Life of Adventure and Delight deceive themselves and engage in odd behaviors as they navigate how to be good, how to make meaningful relationships, and the strengths and pitfalls of self-interest. Elegantly written and emotionally immediate, the stories provide an intimate, honest assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives from a dazzlingly original, critically acclaimed writer.
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Rainbows on rainbows 🌈.

This morning I started A Life of Adventure and Delight, a short story collection with a beautiful rainbow cover! Saw another lone chair in the middle of nowhere and this might be one of my favorite pictures so far on this Iceland trip!

Libby1 This is WONDERFUL. 🌈 7y
KimM What's the story behind these lone chairs? Love your pictures ❤️ 7y
Laura317 I love everything about this! ❤️ 🌈 7y
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vivastory Great picture! 7y
Peddler410 I want to visits Iceland now! 7y
Suet624 Gasp! Gorgeous. 7y
LauraBrook Love this!!! 7y
Purrfectpages I'm loving all of your pics! 7y
youneverarrived Gorgeous photo 💕 7y
LeahBergen Wow!! 😍 7y
ApoptyGina69 What are the odds?!? What a magical land. 🦄🇮🇸 7y
ValerieAndBooks Wow! Very frame-worthy! 7y
Gissy 👌🏼 7y
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You guys! This book was so good! Eight stories and not one dud. Each one pulling the reader into some facet of domestic melancholy. Read with wine.

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This that fuckboi logic. 😒

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batsy Ugh 😠 7y
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EvieBee What an opener! 7y
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"He saw that Mrs. Shaw's toes were painted bright red. Anita had never used nail polish, and Gopal wondered what a woman who would paint her toenails might do." ??

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Starting today. Coming out tomorrow. 😬

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Look what I found in the mailbox today! 😃 #bookmail

pocketmermaid 🌈🌈🌈 8y
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So this happened! 😆

IamIamIam Awesome! Congrats!!! 8y
AlaMich Hey, cool!! 8y
Hobbinol Yea! Congratulations!🍾 8y
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Donna_sBookMinute Great!! Enjoy your read. 8y
carrceli Yahoo! 8y
diovival @carrceli It's been years since I won a book from GR. I'm excited for my bookmail. 8y
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