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“BRUCE MADE A BEELINE FOR ME…”

Sarfraz Manzoor on how a meeting with Bruce Springsteen helped turn his memoir about a British

Asian in love with the Boss into a feature film

“MY book, Greetings From Bury Park, came out in 2007 and as I was writing it I did think that in

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