Anita and Me - Paperback - 9781565845299

Anita and Me, which has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the British village of Tollington. With great warmth and humor, Meera Syal brings to life a quirky, spirited 1960s mining town and creates in her protagonist what the Washington Post calls a "female Huck Finn." The novel follows nine-year-old Meena through a year spiced with pilfered sweets and money, bad words, and compulsive, yet inventive, lies. Anita and Me offers a fresh, sassy look at a childhood caught between two cultures.

• | Author: Meera Syal
• | Publisher: New Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1565845293
• | ISBN-13: 9781565845299