A review by ericgaryanderson
Selection Day by Aravind Adiga

4.0

With this I've read all three of Adiga's novels (I haven't gotten to his short story collection yet). He is a terrific novelist: a wonderful stylist (great sentences!) and a sharp observer of his characters and the spaces they inhabit or pass through. Selection Day is ostensibly about boys coming up as cricket players, but the book has much more to say about growing up, grappling with challenging parents and other flawed adults, exploring relationships between boys, and coming as near to terms as possible with emerging sexualities than it does about sport. Perhaps a bit hurried toward the end, but mileage on this may vary. A good read, GoodReads!