Family Life is a 2014 autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma.

Set in 1978, it tells the coming-of-age story of an eight-year old Indian boy named Ajay Mishra living with his recently immigrated family in New York City.

The story develops around his older brother Birju, who suffers a life-changing accident, and how the family copes with the incident.

It won the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.

[7] On The Omnivore, an aggregator of British press, the book received an "omniscore" of 4.0 out of 5.