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Funny ethnics / Shirley Le.

Funny ethnics / Shirley Le.
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Record Number 22063
ISBN 9781922863737 (paperback)
Location F LE
Author Le, Shirley, (author).
Title Funny ethnics / Shirley Le.
Published Boon Wurrung Country ; South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2023.
©2023.
Collation 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Summary Note 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.
Target Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
Awards Note Age Book of the Year Award - Fiction (Shortlist - 2023)
Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (AUS) (Shortlist - 2023)
Subject Children of immigrants
Social conditions
Australian fiction
Vietnamese Australians -- Fiction
Immigrants -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Fiction
Children of immigrants -- Fiction
Geographic Name Western Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
New South Wales -- Sydney
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
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