Funny Ethnics
A coming-of-age tale that reveals a side of Australia so ordinary it's entirely bizarre.
by Shirley Le
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Pub Date Feb 28 2023 | Archive Date Feb 28 2023
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Description
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.
A Note From the Publisher
Marketing Plan
- Funny Ethnics is the first book resulting from the Affirm Press/Sweatshop mentorship program
- Shirley Le is a Western Sydney writer on the rise, will have an excellent publicity campaign with major festivals already including her in their lineup
- ABC TV's Compass is doing an episode on Sweatshop featuring Shirley's journey with her book, to be broadcast in March 2023
- There's lots of buzz for Shirley: a fresh voice full of dark humour, sharp observations and a disarming vulnerability.
- Vietnamese–Australian experience as in Nam Le's The Boat (58k on Bookscan) but with the dryly funny social realism of Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem (35k on Bookscan)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781922863737 |
| PRICE | A$29.99 (AUD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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