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  Anita and Me
  

  by Meera Syal

  ISBN 1565845293 (1-56584-529-3)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  Based on the author's own childhood, this novel depicts growing up in the 60s as part of the only "coloured" family living in a Wolverhampton mining village. [via]

  More editions of Anita and Me:

  • Anita and Me: ISBN 156584372X (1-56584-372-X)
    Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Anita and Me: ISBN 0006548768 (0-00-654876-8)
    Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • Anita and Me: ISBN 000714301X (0-00-714301-X)
    Softcover, Zondervan
  • Anita and Me: ISBN 0002253402 (0-00-225340-2)
    Hardcover, Indus
  • Anita and Me: ISBN 1565845293 (1-56584-529-3)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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  Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
  

  by Meera Syal

  ISBN 1862300526 (1-86230-052-6)
  Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited

  
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  Meera Syal's second novel features a trio of close and somewhat unlikely childhood friends. Sunita, a former law student and activist, has married her university sweetheart Akash, and is settled into a life of overweight, underappreciated motherhood. Tania is a raven-maned beauty who's rejected marriage and anything traditionally Asian for a high-flying TV career and a compliant Indophile boyfriend. And then there's Chila. Innocent, kind, funny Chila, with her simple soul and her glass animal collection, has just, to everyone's amazement, snared Deepak--the "most eligible bachelor within a twenty-mile radius."

  A comedienne and actress as well as the author of the prize-winning Anita and Me, Syal expertly steers her characters through what we might call middle youth--that emotional roller coaster of an age when the real growing up is done. Everywhere her trademark wit and sensitivity are on display. There's the inevitable bitching at the wedding: "Now the sister is howling. I'd howl if I had a moustache like hers..." Then, after the ceremony, come the traditional tears:

  Tissue-clutching matriarchs reattached themselves to harrumphing husbands, reaffirming their bonds to each other and the watching world. Single girls clucked in feverish groups, high on the drama of the departure, tossing their fancy dupattas at the single men, torn between the horror and the longing of it all.

  What comes after that, alas, is infidelity and envy and betrayal. True to its stoic title, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee encompasses not only the strengths but the limits of female friendship. Yet the author retains her sense of humor and cross-cultural irony to the very end. One final note: if you're pregnant and have set your heart on natural childbirth, avoid pages 72 and 73. Or else book that elective cesarean and painkilling cocktail. Now. --Lisa Gee [via]

  More editions of Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee:

  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee: ISBN 1565846141 (1-56584-614-1)
    Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee: ISBN 031227856X (0-312-27856-X)
    Softcover, Picador
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee: ISBN 0552771872 (0-552-77187-2)
    Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee: ISBN 0552999520 (0-552-99952-0)
    Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee: ISBN 0385410727 (0-385-41072-7)
    Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee: ISBN 1862300526 (1-86230-052-6)
    Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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  Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers
  

  by Meera Syal

  ISBN 0951587722 (0-9515877-2-2)
  Softcover, Aurora Metro Publications Limited

  
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  • Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers: ISBN 0951587722 (0-9515877-2-2)
    Softcover, Aurora Metro Publications Limited
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  Untitled Novel Two
  

  by Meera Syal

  ISBN 1862300534 (1-86230-053-4)
  Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited

  
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  More editions of Untitled Novel Two:

  • Untitled Novel Two: ISBN 0385410735 (0-385-41073-5)
    Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
  • Untitled Novel Two: ISBN 1862300534 (1-86230-053-4)
    Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited