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We could our stories. We tell them to remain alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a time, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of any dead poet, home from college or university following a collapse (SOMETHING WRONG, the doctors say), she actually is trying to find her father through stories - and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains contain the written stories, from salmon-fishing journals to poems, and the maternal MacCarrolls contain the oral) and through her own writing (using its Superabundance of Style). Ruthie turns also to the books her father left out, his library transposed to her bedroom and stacked on the floor, which she pledges to work her way through while she's still living. In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie writes Ireland, using its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she uncovers and recounts recreate alive multiple generations buried in this soil - plus they could bring her back into the earth again, too.
