Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance
Eda Gunaydin
I have come to see that I am an argumentative person who is frequently convinced that my angle, my take, on a matter, is the right one. This kind of delusional self-belief is not rewarded in many other spheres of social life, so I write essays.’
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. Exquisitely written, Root & Branch unsettles neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place. Eda Gunaydin’s essays ask: what are the legacies of migration, apart from loss? And how do we find comfort in where we are?
Gunaydin’s work, and it is work, lands with a deceptive lightness on the page and its readers.
- Release
- May-2022
- ISBN
- 9781742237312
- RRP (AUD)
- $29.99
- Pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Category
- PERSONAL ESSAYS
Eda Gunaydin
GUNAYDIN is a Turkish-Australian writer.
NewSouth Publishing
NewSouth Publishing is the publishing division of UNSW Press Ltd, a leading Australian university press.
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World excluding ANZ
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Joumana Awad
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