’Anita and Me’ by Meera Syal
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Title & author of the book: 'Anita and Me' by Meera Syal
The setting of the book?
The story resolves around Meena Syal, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands'
mining village of Tollington. The novel provides a vision of British childhood in the 1960s, a
childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of enormous change. Meena is desperate to
fit in with the other children in her neighbourhood while forever feeling like an outsider because she is
"different". Eventhough the Punjabi family is well respected by the locals, there are still sutations
when they have to deal with racism.
Plot summary (NB! Use the present tenses)
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