Back To ListAnd the Walls Came DownByDenise Da CostaAvailable Jun 6th 2023Paperback$ 24.99Paperback$ 24.99E-mail me when this book is available Email meDescriptionBack 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.Of Related InterestJade Is a Twisted GreenTanya TurtonReviews An immersive and propulsive journey into adulthood that so piercingly questions pride, hope, and family. Don Mount Court comes alive in a collision of care, control, abuse, and love. What a privilege it is to share in Delia Ellis's diary, and life.Derek Mascarenhas, author of Coconut DreamsPreviousNextContributorsDenise Da CostaDenise Da Costa is a Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist whose work is featured in Subdivided: City Building in an Age of Hyper Diversity. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.View Author Page Book DetailsPaperbackJune 20235.5x8.5 in344 pp9781459750364ePubJune 2023-288 pp9781459750371ePubJune 2023-288 pp9781459750388