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Title Statement | And the walls came down / Denise Da Costa. |
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Author | Da Costa, Denise |
Publication | Toronto, ON: Dundurn Press,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | 330 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781459750364 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06953033 |
Summary | "Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as a compass, she rediscovers life as a precocious teen growing up in the nineties. Delia's writings reveal her anxieties following a move to Don Mount Court, a Toronto government housing complex, where she struggles to navigate life with an overprotective Jamaican mother and her father's inept replacement, "Neville the nuisance." Delia's troubles compound when she enlists her naive younger sister in a scheme to reunite their parents and recapture the idealistic life she yearns for. Yet, through the lens of adulthood, Delia's entries take a wrecking ball to the perception of her parents' love story she'd long built up in her mind, uncovering a child's internalization of a failed marriage, poverty, and a mother come undone."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Children's diaries--Fiction |
Diaries--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
Marriage--Fiction | |
Parent and child--Fiction | |
By Location | Toronto (Ont.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Bildungsromans |
Domestic fiction | |
Novels |