Castles & Ruins

<p>Decades after spending a summer in the Irish countryside with her parents-author Deborah Love and National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen-Rue takes her young family back to Ireland to revisit locales from that season in the sixties. As a guide she has her mother's poetic book Annaghkeen named for the castle that overlooked their home in Galway.</p><p></p><p>What begins as a simple nostalgic trip quickly becomes something far more complex. As Rue approaches Annaghkeen Castle and digs deeper into her parents' literary legacy a trove of memories is unearthed forcing her to reckon with a childhood fraught with the stormy energy of two brilliant parents often at odds with each other and their children.</p><p></p><p>Both a rich and informative travelogue and a profoundly emotional memoir <em>Castles & Ruins</em> celebrates the triumph of creative success while frankly appraising the often-terrible costs a family must pay for it.</p>