TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanghera, Sathnam
TI  - The boy with the topknot
SN  - 9780141028590
PY  - 2020///
CY  - 
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - P-EN
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - East Indians
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - East Indians Social life and customs
KW  - Biography
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Novels
N1  - a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton
N2  - For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot. And then there was his family, whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until, at the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage and a glorious sense of humour, he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past - from his father's harsh life in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist Office - trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets
ER  -