With agile humour and moments of tenderness, The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie evokes the Canadian winter and the trauma of living with a manipulative parent. The second in Guardian Australia’s literary highlights series for 2019
Having heard Vicki Laveau-Harvie interviewed on Conversations with Richard Fidler before I read her Stella prize-winning debut, The Erratics, I thought it odd that the host was having a chuckle about her story: a mother whose psychological cruelty knew no bounds, a father barely aware of her existence, and a childhood spent vainly trying to please. While Laveau-Harvie’s warmth and good humour came across, her book sounded like misery memoir. But no. Her agile humour – albeit of the gallows variety – transforms it into something quite of its own genre.
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