# What the Family Needed

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- Authors: [Steven Amsterdam](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-amsterdam)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-11-07

## Description

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

## Editions

### What the Family Needed

- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-15-9463-235-8
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2014-04-01
- Language: en_US

### What the Family Needed

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9956-593-2
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2013-11-07
- Language: en_GB