Anita and Me deserves respect for Meera Syal's semi-autobiographical 1996 novel chronicling an awkward schoolgirl's struggle to escape the cloying embrace of her traditional Punjabi family, the only foreigners in a gritty Midlands mining village, against an uneasy background of skinhead racism.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:27AM on November 11, 2015