Enza Gandolfo
Unearthing the Stories of Australia’s Working Class
'Most literary novels are about the middle class, so much so that we don’t often think about class when we read them. Being middle class – like being white and male – is read as the universal human experience. There were no people like me or my family in the novels I read as a child. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, this exacerbated my feelings of inferiority and marginality. There was a sense that to obtain the life my parents wanted for me I had to leave them and my class behind.'