Eda Gunaydin

Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian essayist whose writing explores class, race, diaspora and Western Sydney. She has been a finalist for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her debut essay collection Root & Branch was shortlisted for the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.

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On ‘Sighs Too Deep for Words’ by Helen Garner

In her 1999 piece, ‘Sighs Too Deep for Words: On Being Bad At Reading the Bible’, Helen Garner stages more than one exchange with Tim Winton about their shared faith, asking him his thoughts on prayer and God.

The cat surged down with no preamble, startling Mooks, whose set-up tumbled to the ground. Robertson leant down and snatched up the thing before it could go for the filters, and Mitch watched as a single ginger cat hair descended with cosmic slowness into the open tub of hummus.

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Eda Gunaydin

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On ‘Sighs Too Deep for Words’ by Helen Garner

Fuck Up