Anita and Me

Meera Syal author Tanika Gupta editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:16th Sep '21

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This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Meena, a young Punjabi girl growing up in a 1970s Black Country mining village.

This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Meena, a young girl growing up in the only Punjabi family in a 1970s Black Country mining village. Meena spends her days happily getting into scrapes with the other local children until one day the impossibly cool Anita enters her life. Suddenly Meena knows exactly who she wants to be but is Anita all that she seems? Soon Meena’s world is turned upside down as she is caught between two very different cultures. Anita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath. It has been adapted for the stage by the multi-award-winning Tanika Gupta.

Meera's brilliant novel is a wonderful coming of age story. It's an engaging and funny tale set in a tight knit community about a young girl trying to decide her cultural identity and I look forward immensely to realising it on stage. * Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. *

ISBN: 9781350262751

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 140g

144 pages