{"product_id":"book-1k60","title":"Castles \u0026 Ruins","description":"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. 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. Both a rich and informative travelogue and a profoundly emotional memoir, Castles \u0026amp; Ruins celebrates the triumph of creative success while frankly appraising\u003cbr\u003ethe often-terrible costs a family must pay for it.","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66570086285616,"sku":"BD1k60","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1k60-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776749115","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1k60","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}