Starting Soon: Salvaging a Family: A Memoir In A Flash by Luanne Castle
How much of our parents’ past do we really know?
And how much of what happened before we were born quietly shapes our own lives, relationships and understanding of who we are?
Starting on 17th August, we’re delighted to be taking Salvaging a Family: A Memoir In A Flash by Luanne Castle on a Love Books Tours Bookstagram Tour.
Published by ELJ Editions, this 172-page memoir explores family secrets, generational trauma, identity, perseverance and forgiveness through a collection of brief and vivid fragments.
Our #LBTCrew will be sharing their thoughts from 17th–23rd August, and we’re looking forward to seeing the conversations this deeply personal book inspires.
About the Book
Salvaging a Family: A Memoir In A Flash
Author: Luanne Castle
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 172
Publisher: ELJ Editions
Bookstagram Tour: 17th–23rd August
Blurb
Borne of shame and trauma, the secrets uncovered in Luanne Castle’s hybrid memoir reveal her father’s complicated childhood and the impact it had on their relationship. Told in brief, strikingly vivid fragments, and through various perspectives and forms, the book as a whole presents a deeply moving and unforgettable account. We readers are privileged to bear witness to this emotional excavation, one that ultimately reminds us that love is powerful even when it’s painful and that forgiveness is the only way forward. Scrap: Salvaging a Family is a gorgeous and brilliantly original collection. I highly recommend it. ~Kathy Fish, author of Wild Life: Collected Works
The vignettes in Castle’s Scrap are beautifully rendered. With house as vessel, we are voyeurs through her domesticity, the skilled lens of speaker Luanne’s traumas and perseverance as she navigates the rawness and fragility of youth. The book is both powerful and arresting–Castle is a deft miniaturist–each story etched with a fine blade, yet a delicate touch. Scrap is a collection of constellations of the ordinary. ~Robert Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief of Bending Genres, author of ASKEW.
This lyrical, beautifully imagistic work is both an exploration of the long roots of generational trauma and identity erasure and a vivid look back at growing up female in mid-century America. ~Kathryn Kulpa, author of A Map of Lost Places
About Luanne Castle
Luanne has been a Fellow at the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside. She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside (PhD); Western Michigan University (MA, MFA); and Stanford University (Certificate).
Luanne has published four award-winning poetry collections and lives with her husband and two cats in Arizona along a wash that wildlife use as a thoroughfare.
Follow the Bookstagram Tour
Meet the brilliant #LBTCrew joining us:
17th August
@bookishandcaffeinatedintx
@whatisloureading
18th August
@afelton6212
19th August
@pause_theframe
20th August
@read_colour_repeat
@helenandherhobbies
21st August
@nicolafrancesca
22nd August
@tiffanystales
23rd August
@readsleepgame
@thesjadventures
Follow @CatPoems, @Elj_Editions_Ltd, @LoveBooksTours and @LBT.Crew to keep up with the reviews throughout the tour.
Get Your Copy
Salvaging a Family: A Memoir In A Flash is available now.
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A huge thank you to Luanne Castle, ELJ Editions and every member of our #LBTCrew taking part.
We’re looking forward to following the tour and hearing what our readers make of this moving exploration of family, memory and the things we inherit from those who came before us.
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