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Leena Kallammanavar has spent nearly two decades working inside India’s child protection system, and she still describes her job in the same way she probably did on her first day in 2008: as a coordination problem. “We don’t work in a cocoon or as an individual person,” she told me. Her department, the District Child…

R. Marin is the pen name of a 49-year-old writer, born in Italy and now living in France, who has spent the last several years turning his own life into a series of novels rather than a conventional memoir. His first book covers his life from birth to age eighteen.

R. Marin is the pen name of a self-published author whose first novel, Despite it All, I Made It Through, traces his life from birth to age eighteen. His childhood was shaped by an absent biological mother, a devoted foster mother, and a legal status that never quite matched the family he actually lived in.…