{"product_id":"what-the-family-needed-steven-amsterdam-9780733636295","title":"What the Family Needed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if every now and then, the people in your family woke up with a special power? Over the span of 30 years we are invited into the secrets of one very unique family, from a mystified teenager to an over-tired night nurse to a conflicted exile. The surprising strengths they each find show them how to change their lives - and what the family needs in order to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful novel: imaginative, intelligent, empathetic... Like a cross between The Corrections and The Slap.\" - Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To tell you the narrative concerns 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.\" - The Australian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grade: A... At once magical and very normal, a wishful fantasy about the strength it can take to love one's family members well.\" - Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0733636292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780733636295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.65d","brand":"Steven Amsterdam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487480033535,"sku":"9780733636295","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7ae16d7-ef7d-4e19-b442-60c51493c2af.jpg?v=1778060684","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-the-family-needed-steven-amsterdam-9780733636295","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}