About What the family Needed:

“Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?” As with his acclaimed debut, Things We Didn’t See Coming, Amsterdam leaps through time, but here he looks backwards, turning his focus to the uneasy peace of one particularly gifted family. Letting them tell their own stories – from a sexually curious teenager to a septuagenarian widower to a middle-aged exile – he captures their secrets over thirty years. The surprising strengths they find reveal how much each person needs in order to change their life – and what the family needs in order to survive.