Being Adopted: Challenges a Teen Faces
Vishesh Unni Raghunathan
MY NAME IS CINNAMON by By Vikas Prakash Joshi. Illustrated by Niloufer Wadia Hay House, 2022, 304 pp., INR 399
October 2023, volume 47, No 10

Roshan (Cinnamon) is a student at Diamond International School, Pune. He is the school’s U-13 goal-keeper, and we meet him pulling off heroics against their arch-rivals. We learn that he is adopted and lives with his adopted parents and has one burning desire—to meet his birth parents. The book follows Cinnamon’s life through school and him meeting his birth mother.

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