{"product_id":"funny-ethnics","title":"Funny Ethnics","description":"'Shirley Le is a writer to watch out for, and this book is an absolute joy to read.' Alice Pung\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFunny Ethnics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJumping 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFunny Ethnics\u003c\/i\u003e, Shirley Le uses a coming-of-age tale to reveal a side of Australia so ordinary that it's entirely bizarre.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Affirm Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45313346830574,"sku":"9781922863737","price":24.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781922863737.jpg?v=1716903143","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/funny-ethnics","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}