Root & Branch by Eda Gunaydin Book Launch
Fri, 13 May
|Better Read Than Dead + Zoom
Join Eda Gunaydin and Hayley Scrivenor in-conversation to celebrate the release of Root & Branch.


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 Books, Meanjin, The…
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