# What the Family Needed

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- Book: [What the Family Needed](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-amsterdam/what-the-family-needed) ([What the Family Needed.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-amsterdam/what-the-family-needed.md))
- Authors: [Steven Amsterdam](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-amsterdam)
- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-15-9463-235-8
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2014-04-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...