I Belong Here by Anita Sethi review – a healing journey

I Belong Here by Anita Sethi review – a healing journey
Racial abuse prompts a hike across the Pennines and a heartfelt examination of identity and place in a memoir of rare power
Anita Sethi makes no secret of her novice status as a walker and naturalist. Photograph: George Torode
Anita Sethi makes no secret of her novice status as a walker and naturalist. Photograph: George Torode
Wed 21 Apr 2021 07.00 EDT
In 2019, Anita Sethi was on the TransPennine Express train from Liverpool on her way to Newcastle when a man sitting near her began playing loud music. When Sethi asked if he could turn it down, he stood up and unleashed a torrent of vicious racist abuse that attacked her right to exist in the country of her birth. “Do you have a British passport?” he shouted. “Get back on the banana boat. Paki cunt. Fuck off!”

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