Published November 2015 via Lambert Nagle Media
★★★
Two stories in one: Castles in the Air tells Cubitt's story of an unconventional childhood alongside her mother's story following one adventure to the next. I picked this up because I'm curious about Cubitt's more recent memoir, but this one is an adventure in and of itself.
Cubitt's mother's life took her across the world, from a (white, British) youth in colonial contexts to her later life across oceans and struggling with medical issues. The description sets the book up to be something of a mystery—Cubitt investigating the 'hold' an old family friend had on her mother—but the reality seems much more benign than that; although some things about that relationship have absolute 'yikes' value in this day and age, there's not really a mystery there. More, this seems to me the author's effort to understand her mother's life more broadly—and, within that, the reasons for which parts of her mother's life came apart.
Cubitt did some globe-trotting of her own, it seems, and I'm curious to see in her more recent memoir where those experiences took her.
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