Join us for a Friday eve discussion between Eda Gunaydin, the author of Root and Branch, and essayist and critic Cher Tan, about the legacies of migration, and the ways we seek belonging in a late capitalist world. 

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 mother-daughter tradition of sharing a meal in the local kebab shop, to the legacies of family migration, and intergenerational trauma.

Cher Tan is an essayist and critic living and working on unceded Wurundjeri country. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, the Guardian, ABC Arts, Runway Journal, Overland, Gusher magazine and Hyperallergic, amongst many others. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, is forthcoming with NewSouth Publishing in 2024.

Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian essayist and researcher from Western Sydney. Her writing explores class, capital, intergenerational trauma and diaspora, and you can find her work in the Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Age and others. Eda’s debut essay collection Root & Branch won the Non-Fiction Award in this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the 2023 ABIAs.

Free, but bookings are essential.

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