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Nine-year-old Meena can't hang on to grow up and break free from her parents. But as the child of the sole Punjabi family in the mining town of Tollington, her have difficulties for independence differs from most. Meena desires fish fingertips and potato chips, not chapati and dhal; she desires an English Christmas, not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities. But more than anything, she desires to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang. Blonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and sassy, Anita is everything Meena feels she desires to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life, however the appearance of a baby brother, teenage hormones, impending entrance examinations for the posh grammar college and a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to carefully turn Anita's salad days sour. Anita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful family portrait of town life in the age of flares, electricity cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath. It really is a unique vision of a United kingdom child years in the '70s, a child years found between two ethnicities, each on the brink of change.
