![]() When he couldn't, he vowed that he would write his own someday. “I remember asking if there is anything where someone looks like me and my family on the pages and they said, ‘It’s just not relatable.’” Growing up Simran Jeet Singh looked for books that had characters that looked like him. ![]() “It’s even more isolating when I would look around and see that everything, whether it was books or movies, there was nobody who looked like us there either,” Singh, 36, of New York City, told TODAY Parents. He often searched for people like him in books. As Sikhs, they do not cut their hair or beards and wear turbans as part of their religious beliefs. ![]() As a child in San Antonio, Simran Jeet Singh never saw anyone who looked like him or his family. ![]()
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