Crossroads." (Summer 1997) 19 par. Online. Outlook: The Weekly News Magazine. Internet. Nov. 5, 1997. Available: http://www.is.lk/is/spot/sp0151/clip5.html. Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 March 1965) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award , and Cinnamon Gardens (1998). He currently lives in