Root and Branch: Essays on inheritance - Softcover

Eda Gunaydin (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1742237312 ISBN 13: 9781742237312

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

'There is a Turkish saying that one's home is not where one is born, but where one grows full – doğduğun yer değil, doyduğun yer.'

Mixing the personal and political, Eda Gunaydin's bold and innovative writing explores race, class, gender and violence, and Turkish diaspora.

Equal parts piercing, tender and funny, this book takes us from an overworked and underpaid café job in western Sydney, the motherdaughter tradition of sharing a meal in the local kebab shop, to the legacies of family migration, and intergenerational trauma.

Root and Branch seeks to unsettle neat descriptions of belonging and place. What are the legacies of migration, apart from loss? And how do we find comfort in where we are?

About this title

About the Author

Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian essayist and researcher, whose writing explores class, capital, intergenerational trauma and diaspora. You can find her work in the Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and others. She has been a finalist for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Root and Branch is her debut essay collection.

Edition details

• Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1742237312
• ISBN 13: 9781742237312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288