Author with Bronx roots debuts new novel, “All Mixed Up,” at Pelham-Van Nest library

Author Raj Tawney, whose mother hails from the Bronx, debuted a children’s novel last week at the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library in an event he called “sort of like homecoming.”
“All Mixed Up,’ which will be released Nov. 26 by Paw Prints Publishing, is Tawney’s first novel targeting middle-grade students. It centers on a multi-ethnic sixth grade boy named Kamal, who lives in the suburbs of New York City and befriends a boy from Pakistan in 2002— just a