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by Denise Da Costa


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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.

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  • Title And the Walls Came Down
  • Author Denise Da Costa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dundurn Press
  • Date 2023-07-04
  • ISBN 9781459750364 / 1459750365
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.43 x 5.51 x 0.87 in (21.41 x 14.00 x 2.21 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Coming of Age

About the author

Denise Da Costa is an author and visual artist. Born in Toronto, she spent her early years in Jamaica. She is a graduate of York University and Seneca College School of Communication Arts, and is an alumni of the Humber Creative Writing program. Her work explores the complications of love and the impact of class, gender, and race on identity. And the Walls Came Down is her first novel. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.
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