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Root & Branch by Eda Gunaydin Book Launch

Join Eda Gunaydin and Hayley Scrivenor in-conversation to celebrate the release of Root & Branch.

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Root & Branch by Eda Gunaydin Book Launch

Time & Location

13 May 2022, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Better Read Than Dead + Zoom, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia

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About The Event

Join us for the launch of Root & Branch by Eda Gunaydin, with Hayley Scrivenor.

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?

About Eda

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 BooksMeanjinThe Lifted Brow and others. She has been a finalist for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Root & Branch is her debut essay collection.

About Hayley

Hayley Scrivenor is a former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. Hayley lives and writes on Dharawal country and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong. Hayley's debut novel, Dirt Town, won the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize.

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