And the Walls Came Down
And the Walls Came Down
Noelle Walsh
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Janice B Knickle
, Amanda Schempp
, Vanessa S
, Susan Hroncek
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Jude Castillo
, Linda Leitch
, Penny Gilman
, Deana Bueley
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Paris Semansky
, Mathew Webb
, Sandra Furlotte
, Joshua Lewis
, Andrea Pole
, Marilyn Stanley
, Shannon Holmes
, Barry Kazimer
, Ed Gilman
, Paula Adam
, LJ Law
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joe Mitchell
, Claire Gear
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Tyler Webb
, Andy Holmes
, Thelma Ball
, Natasa Ilic
, Julie Kaniak
, Reilly Robson
, Lauren Seal
, joy mills
, Shayla Bradley
, Dani Kat
, Mary Therrien
, Agnes Marshall
, Trish Bowering
, Andrea Gillespie
, Irene O’Neill
, Deb Philippon
, Jennifer Morse
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Jilanna Eagles
, Hoda Montazeri
, Linda Ham
, Patricia Johnson
, Ellen Clarke
, Emma Way
, Marjorie Roy
, Dawn Macdonald
, Tanya Boudreau
, Cindy Bodini
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Sharon Bird
, Crystal Inwood
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Remi Gunn
, P. Thompson
, Ken Gilmour
, Heather Rose
, Sonia Adams
, Paula Ritchie
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Heather Belliveau
, Christine Lion
, Jane Graham
, Rachel Lutz
, Mary Danieli
, Huguette Lemieux
, Diana Richardson
, Darlene Jilks
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Darlene Foster
, Benita Hartwell
, Denise Duvall
, Rosa Cross
, Janet Meisner
, Rodney Cross
, Donald Forsythe
, Patricia McKeown
, Margaret McKay
, Maureen Brownlee
, Carl Scott
, Leslie Vermeer
, Kim Cappellina
, Robin Leighton
, Gwynn Scheltema
, diana kirkwood
, Dielle MacArthur
, Lynn Bechtel
, Alice Meems
, Janice Cournoyer
, Lisa Mallia
, Stacy Stafford
, Karen Kendrick
, Melissa Kohlman
, C. Ray
, Karen Nordrum
, Debra Fisher
, Pamela Humphrey
, Debbie Youngman
, Anastasia Hossack
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Melissa Poremba
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Elaine Baptie
, Julia Belleghem
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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.
