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2 days agoFoal review British Asian's search for belonging ripples between tenderness and rage
A.K. spends his youth growing up on unnamed Island and later moves to the city, where he lives in a dingy flat on Seven Sisters Road. There are fleeting references to Walkmans in his childhood and, later, an allusion to the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes but the writing wavers between a feverish nightmare and something much more grounded and political. We glimpse the significant figures in A.K.'s life his Indian immigrant parents, childhood sweetheart Katie, and local bully Max in tantalising flashes.
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