{"id":15399,"date":"2015-03-23T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=15399"},"modified":"2015-03-23T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:16:49","slug":"2015-folio-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/03\/23\/2015-folio-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Folio Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15164\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/02\/09\/2015-folio-prize-shortlist\/family-life\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Family-Life.jpg?fit=267%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"267,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Family Life\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Family-Life.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Family-Life.jpg?fit=267%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15164\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Family-Life-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Family Life\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Family-Life.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Family-Life.jpg?fit=267%2C400&amp;ssl=1 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This year&#8217;s winner of the Folio Prize is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Family Life<\/em><\/strong>, by Akhil Sharma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This beat out a strong list of books (see the finalists <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/02\/09\/2015-folio-prize-shortlist\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), and we need to get a review up.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma is an author I know only through a few short stories published in <em>The New Yorker<\/em> (&#8220;We Didn&#8217;t Like Him,&#8221;\u00a0thoughts\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/05\/27\/akhil-sharma-we-didnt-like-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; and &#8220;A\u00a0Mistake,&#8221; thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/01\/13\/akhil-sharma-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). I enjoyed each of them.\u00a0<em>Family Life<\/em> is his second novel, following <em>An Obedient Father<\/em> from 2000,\u00a0which won the PEN\/Hemingway Award.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a review of <em>Family Life<\/em> by Kim at Reading Matters <a href=\"http:\/\/readingmattersblog.com\/2014\/04\/16\/family-life-by-akhil-sharma\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Folio Prize winner has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/03\/23\/2015-folio-prize-winner\/\"><u>Read the full 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