Fan Casting Noah Vasquez in Faulted Line

Noah comes from a working-class background in California. He was raised primarily by his mother after his father passed early in his childhood. Books became his escape and later his identity. He earned a partial scholarship to the university, where he often feels out of place among wealthier, more socially confident peers. Jocelyn becomes the first person in academia who treats his writing as "serious rather than promising," which profoundly impacts his self-worth.