A woman who can’t swim wades into a suburban pool. An Indian family sits down
to an Australian Christmas dinner. A single mother’s offer to coach her son’s football
team leads to an unexpected encounter, and a wife refuses to let her husband look at her phone.

Roanna Gonsalves’ short stories unearth the aspirations, ambivalence and guilt laced through the lives of twenty-first century Indian immigrants to Australia, steering through clashes of cultures, trials of faith, and squalls of racism. Sometimes heartwrenching, sometimes playful, they cut to the truth of what it means to be a modern outsider. Since its publication, Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney has quickly found a place on a number of lists of must-read books, and has been praised by critics for its playfulness with language, its boldness and its fresh voice.