Cher Tan reviews Second City Ed. Catriona Menzies-Pike & Luke Carman
Second City: Essays From Western Sydney
Edited by Luke Carman & Catriona Menzies-Pike
ISBN 978-0-6480621-3-4
Reviewed by CHER TAN
In ‘Second City’, the titular essay by Eda Gunaydin in Second City, an anthology of essays collected and published by the Sydney Review of Books, Gunaydin begins: ‘I spent the summer between 2013 and 2014 as many 20-year-olds do: working at a restaurant.’ It’s a sentence that includes as much as it excludes, echoing the popular internet phrase ‘if you know, you know’. The essay goes on to explore the ramifications of gentrification in Parramatta, alongside a certain gentrification of the self through education and upward mobility.
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