Aravind Adiga

Originally published: Great Britain: Picador, 2016.

A Novel

Selection Day

Omar Fernandez

3.5 ⭐

I'm still processing the book. It's a complicated story about two boys raised in a slum in India, abandoned by their mother and with a very complicated relationship with their dad who is obsessed with turning then into cricket stars as his passport to get out of the slums. The book is heavy, filled with teenage/young adult drama. 

You only get to know one character, Manju, and get glimpses of other characters and their motivations. But, even Manju and his true emotions remain baffling until the very end. It is heartbreaking.

Selection Day A Novel

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