The Erratics
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
The Erratics is a 2018 memoir by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, winner of the Stella Prize. When her elderly mother breaks a hip, the author returns from Australia to her parents' Alberta ranch and confronts the controlling, paranoid mother who had cut her daughters off, and the father who had been kept captive in the house.
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- Margaret Atwood: “The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie is a searing, brilliantly written memoir about a destructive and cunning mother; reads like a novel.”