Empireland: EURO 2020, Racism and Nostalgia | Sathnam Sanghera
The ਸੋਚ (Sōch) Podcast
The Boy of the Top-Notp
I grew up in a big Sikh family in Wolverhampton, 54 first cousins. I couldn't speak English when I had my first day at school and the only white people I ever saw were the schoolteachers. It was a very, very Punjabi upbringing. My dad, though, had schizophrenia. My sister had schizophrenia. So my first book, The Boy of the Top-Notp, was about that. And also about how I got my hair and I left Wolverhampton and became slightly distanced from my heritage. But I've been slowly going back towards it with my work,. Is that enough of a summary? No, that's absolutely fair. Fair enough.
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