There Will Be Gardens

A startling memoir too stark, too vivid to suffer from nostalgia. This is a presentation of the past — in this case, the streets of Toronto — that provides a map of a city’s mind. It is the world of two-storey houses and two-storey dreams, fragments of the lives of laborers and their wives, judges and lawyers, case workers, interleaving and interwoven. The vision is absolutely authentic. This is the root experience of the city, in a telling prose. All the glass towers of contemporary Toronto are built on this world.