The inspiration for the smash Sundance hit, soon to be a major motion picture, "Blinded by the Light": The acclaimed memoir about the power of Bruce Springsteen's music on a young Pakistani boy growing up in Britain in the 1970s.

Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when, in 1974, he emigrated from Pakistan to Britain with his mother, brother, and sister. Sarfraz spent his teenage years in a constant battle, trying to reconcile being both British and Muslim, trying to fit in at school and at home. But it was when his best friend introduced him to the music of Bruce Springsteen that his life changed completely. From the age of sixteen on, after the moment he heard the harmonica and opening lines to "The River," Springsteen became his personal muse, a lens through which he was able to view the rest of his life. Both a tribute to Springsteen and a story of personal discovery, Greetings from Bury Park is a warm, irreverent, and exceptionally perceptive memoir about how music transcends religion and race.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/08/2008
ISBN: 9780307388025
Pages: 269
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.61d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2008 pg. 79
Publishers Weekly 01/28/2008 pg. 50
Library Journal 02/15/2008 pg. 106
Booklist 03/01/2008 pg. 45