'There is a Turkish saying that one's home is not where one is born, but where one grows full - dogdugun yer degil, doydugun 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 cafe 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 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.


Book Information
ISBN 9781742237312
Author Eda Gunaydin
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint NewSouth Publishing
Publisher NewSouth Publishing