Product Description
What the Family Needed
Author: Steven Amsterdam
Format: Paperback
2012 Encore Award 2013
'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
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