The Family Clause
Translator: Alice Menzies
Author: Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Publisher: Harvill Secker / FSG
Year of Publication: 2020
“… a tender, funny and bruising novel about what it means to be a good parent, the difficulty of understanding those closest to us, and how it sometimes takes courage just to stick around. An ode to families, their dynamics, their boundaries and their silences, in all their messy glory, it reveals one of the real challenges in life: how to stop your family defining your destiny.”
Finalist 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Longlisted for the 2021 Pen Translation Prize