Funny ethnics
Le, Shirley2023
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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.
Main title:
Funny ethnics / Shirley Le.
Author:
Le, Shirley, author
Imprint:
Boon Wurrung Country ; South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
261 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
97819228637379781922863737
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
529531
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | LE | Onloan - Due: 29 Apr 2024 |
| Hampton Library | Adult Fiction - General | LE | Available |