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And the Walls Came Down
Engelsk Paperback
And the Walls Came Down
Engelsk Paperback

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“A scintillating debut full of nuanced and achingly human characters.” — Zalika Reid-Benta, author of Frying Plantain

Back in the low-income neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding one’s voice.


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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9781459750364
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1459750365
Udg. Dato:
17 aug 2023
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
217mm
Højde:
141mm
Forlag:
Dundurn Group Ltd
Oplagsdato:
17 aug 2023
Forfatter(e):
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