Point: embarrassing/uncomfortable, something Meena initially feels she must reject or hide to assimilate into British white culture

I n t o y a, y k, f… j l o o u

(2) “I never think of you as, you know, foreign… just like one of us”

I d w t… t s!

(3) “I don't want that.. that stuff!”

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(5) “exaggerated Tollington accent”

f t b a o… w s i

(6) “fear that being an outsider… was somehow infectious”

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(6) “emerge reborn, pink”, (7) “Ritualistic skin shedding”

• Metaphor of “skin shedding” suggests violent self-erasure

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(10) Anita’s “faint disgust” as their differing cultures’ dinner traditions provoked a “moment of controversy”