About
the Author
Erika de Vasconcelos was born in Montreal. In addition
to My Darling Dead Ones, and Between the Stillness
and the Grove, she has published fiction in Toronto
Life and This Magazine, and teaches creative
writing at Humber College. She lives in Toronto with
her husband, Nino Ricci, and her two daughters, Sarah
and Virginia.
My Darling Dead Ones was published
in the New Face of Fiction program in 1997.
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Books by
this author
Between the Stillness and the Grove (Vintage Canada, 2001)
Between the Stillness and the Grove (Knopf Canada, 2000)
My Darling Dead Ones (Vintage Canada, 1998)
My Darling Dead Ones (Knopf Canada, 1997)
Literary
Awards
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Book Reviews and Quotes
Praise for Between the Stillness and the Grove
"With Between
the Stillness and the Grove, Erika de Vasconselos
has created one of the most confident novels of recent
times, something akin to George Orwell's Animal Farm in it's conviction… I was absolutely sure that Between
the Stillness and the Grove would never deliver what it promised, but de Vasconselos proved me wrong…"
-The Hamilton Spectator
"De Vasconselos
describes war and the crimes of Communism with a stunning
combination of ferocity and intimacy, and she builds
believable, nurturing relationships among her characters
that go a long way toward salving the pain of that are
ugliness. Between the Stillness and the Grove is an ardent, idiosyncratic book."
-The Edmonton Journal
"Throughout, the warmth, the generosity and
weary wisdom of Vecihe's first-person confessional narration
envelops the reader, the flow of her memories intimate
and laden with emotion and sensual detail"
-The Toronto Star
Praise for My Darling Dead Ones
"When writers
set out on this oft-trodden turf, they should all do
it with this kind of uncompromising confidence. My
Darling Dead Ones is written with the linguistic
sensitivity of the exile… A distinctively accomplished
first novel. Tilling language in much the same way that
her characters till the earth, de Vasconcelos has nurtured
a most life-affirming narrative of death."
-Saint John Telegraph-Journal
"Fresh… surprising… wonderful… [The] characters… are honest, vivid and compelling. My Darling Dead Ones presents fascinating portraits
of the sometimes tempestuous relationship between sisters,
and of mothers and daughters together… These vignettes
add up to something unusual: an entirely feminine history…
A complex, forthright, well-told story."
-The Edmonton Journal
Links
to Extra Resources
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