Title: Selection day
Description: Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as good as his older brother Radha. But there are many other things about himself and the world that he doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. And when Manju meets Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, he is forced to come to terms with who he really is.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Cricket, Families, Brothers, Social aspects, Bildungsromans, FICTION / Coming of Age, Fiction, Gay teenagers, Interpersonal relations, Young men, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Literary, Coming of Age, Cultural Heritage, New York Times reviewed, Cricket stories, Fiction, family life, general, Brothers, fiction, India, fiction, Fiction, coming of age
Places: India, Mumbai (India), Mumbai