Looking around his small-town Indiana school, he sees plenty of examples of the types of boy he’d like to be they just don’t look like him. He has loving and understanding parents, a playful and supportive grandfather, and a best friend with endless reserves of strength and loyalty. 8), he channeled what he terms “truthful possibility.” Just because something is unexpected, or even unlikely, doesn’t mean that it can’t happen.Įighth grader Rahul is luckier than most. In writing The Best At It (Balzer + Bray, Oct. But if readers come away surprised by the underlying senses of hope and optimism, given what we have come to expect from stories of such kids in such environments, that’s because Pancholy wanted it that way. For his debut middle-grade novel, actor Maulik Pancholy, of 30 Rock and Phineas and Ferb fame, took liberally from his own experiences growing up Indian American, gay, and nerdy in the Midwest.
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