Funny Ethnics

Funny Ethnics
Shirley Le
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Paperback
Not defined - 288pg
28 Feb 2023 AU
International import eta 7-19 days
9781922863737
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I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share house in the inner west, and cackled. Funny Ethnics catapults readers into the sprawling city-within-a-city that is Western Sydney and the world of Sylvia Nguyen: only child of Vietnamese refugee parents, unexceptional student, exceptional self-doubter. It' s a place where migrants from across the world converge, and identity is a slippery, ever-shifting beast. Jumping through snapshots of Sylvia' s life - from childhood to something resembling adulthood - this novel is about square pegs and round holes, those who belong and those on the fringes. It' s a funhouse mirror held up to modern Australia revealing suburban fortune tellers, train-carriage preachers, crumbling friendships and bad stand-up comedy. In Funny Ethnics, Shirley Le uses a coming-of-age tale to reveal a side of Australia so ordinary that it' s entirely bizarre.
Shirley Le is a Vietnamese Australian writer from Western Sydney. She is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement and holds a BA from Macquarie University. Her short stories and essays have been published in SBS Voices, Overland, The Guardian, Meanjin and Another Australia.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781922863737
Published: 28 Feb 2023
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Press
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Paperback
Weight: 300g
Pages: 288

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