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Summary:

"Back in the low-income Toronto neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding one's own 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."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Chapter 1 Going Back
• Chapter 2 A Lesson in Class, Hadsworth
• Chapter 3 The Great Migration
• Chapter 4 The Parable of the Lost Town
• Chapter 5 A Certain Affliction
• Chapter 6 The Don
• Chapter 7 Regent
• Chapter 8 The Fraternal Twins
• Chapter 9 March of the Matriarchs
• Chapter 10 The Seekers
• Chapter 11 The Perils of the Pious
• Chapter 12 Awakening
• Chapter 13 A Parable of Hope
• Chapter 14 Blindsided
• Chapter 15 The Waning Moon

• Chapter 16 A Dream Deferred
• Chapter 17 Uninvited Guests
• Chapter 18 A Paradox of Hope
• Chapter 19 Motherhood
• Chapter 20 Low Tide
• Chapter 21 The Hummingbird
• Chapter 22 Nurture
• Chapter 23 The First Episode
• Chapter 24 The Last Entry
• Chapter 25 The Other Mother
• Chapter 26 The Wanderers
• Chapter 27 2004
• Chapter 28 Seeking the Lost
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Back Cover

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Author/Creator:

Da Costa, Denise (Author of And the walls came down) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

And the walls came down [by Da Costa, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: And the walls came down [by Da Costa, D.] (Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2023 — ISBN 1459750365; ISBN 9781459750364)

Subjects:

Diaries — Fiction

Young women — Fiction

Toronto (Ont.) — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 05, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PR9199.4.D33 A53 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781459750388 (electronic book)
1459750381 (electronic book)
9781459750371 (electronic book)
1459750373 (electronic book)
9781459750364 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1345470764

Other Control Numbers:

EBC29445805 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp19885069