What the Family Needed: A Novel by Steven Amsterdam

What the Family Needed: A Novel

Steven Amsterdam

272 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy magical realism emotional reflective slow-paced

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In this incandescent novel, a family’s superpowers bestow not instant salvation but the miracle of accepting who they are. “Okay, tell me which you want,” Alek asks his cousin at the outset of What the Family Needed. “To be able to fly or to be in...

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