Yes, My Accent Is Real Preface SOMETIMES PEOPLE ASK ME, "WHY are you writing a memoir? You're only thirty-four." This is not a memoir. I'm not a president, or an astronaut, or a Kardashian. This is a collection of stories from my life. It is not an "I was born in . . ." type of book. I was born in London and raised in New Delhi. When I was eighteen, after maneuvering my way through a billion people and a few cows, I I moved to Portland, Oregon, where I studied business, cleaned toilets, lied my way into an IT job, and fell in love twenty-seven times. I went on to get my master's in acting in Philadelphia, auditioned for a play in the basement of an Apple Store in New York City, and spent four hours a day commuting on a bus in Los Angeles. Somehow this crazy journey landed me on a little television show called The Big Bang Theory. Here are some things that happened to me along the way. I . Obligatory cow joke. The first of many. Excerpted from Yes, My Accent Is Real: And Some Other Things I Haven't Told You by Kunal Nayyar All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
