Novel Life: Rajiv Surendra

novel life: Random House Canada By Robert Wiersema Special to the Star Sun., Nov. 27, 2016 Rajiv Surendra first heard of Yann Martel Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi on the set of Mean Girls, according to Toronto Star. The young Toronto actor was on a break from playing rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, waiting for a toaster for his bagel, when a cameraman made a more-than-literary recommendation You ve gotta read it, bud. Luke Fontana The Elephants in my Backyard, by Rajiv Surendra, Random House of Canada, 288 pages, 29.95. It a book about you, he said. The similarities between the lives of the fictional Pi and the teenage Surendra first-generation Canadian, the son of Tamil immigrants seem overwhelming. As Surendra recounts in his charming new memoir The Elephants in My Backyard, he quickly comes to agree. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.