The Fortress: A Love Story
Written by Danielle Trussoni
Narrated by Danielle Trussoni
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The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in the South of France. The Fortress is A Year in Provence meets Eat, Pray, Love by way of The Shining, a riveting account of one woman’s journey to the other side of the romantic fairy tale.
“If I had been another woman, I might have been skeptical. But I wasn’t another woman. I was a woman ready to be swept away. I was a woman ready for her story to begin. As a writer, story was all that mattered. Rising action, dramatic complication, heroes and villains and dark plots. I believed I was the author of my life, that I controlled the narration.”
From their first meeting, writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a brilliant, mysterious novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of music and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. Within months, they are married and embark upon an adventurous life together.
Eight years later, their marriage in trouble, Trussoni and her husband move to the South of France, hoping to save their relationship. They discover Aubais (pronounced obey, as in love, honor and . . . Aubais), a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc, where they buy a thirteenth-century stone fortress. Aubais is a Mediterranean paradise of sun, sea, and vineyards, but they soon learn the fortress’s secret history of subterranean chambers, Knights Templar, hidden treasure, Nazis, and ghosts. During her years in Aubais, Trussoni’s marriage unravels with terrifying consequences, and she comes to understand that love is never the way we imagine it to be.
Trussoni’s time in France brings hard-won wisdom about authenticity, commitment, and family. Through her search for true happiness, Danielle Trussoni finds the strength to overcome her illusions and start again.
Unflinching and bold, The Fortress is one woman’s struggle to understand the complexities of her own heart. Trussoni’s long-awaited return to memoir is a tour de force that changes the conversation about desire and freedom.
Danielle Trussoni
Danielle Trussoni is the New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of the supernatural thrillers Angelology and Angelopolis. She currently writers the Horror column for the New York Times Book Review and has recently served as a jurist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Trussoni holds an MFA in Fiction from the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won the Michener-Copernicus Society of America award. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in the Hudson River Valley with her family and her pug Fly.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When their marriage begins to crumble, novelist Danielle Trussoni and her narcissistic Bulgarian husband do what any literary couple would in order to rekindle their love: they move into a 13th century fortress in the South of France. Despite their picturesque surroundings, their relationship does not improve, and accusations of gaslighting, adultery and child abduction quickly follow. Ms. Trussoni admits that she has a pattern of falling in love easily, but when things start to go sour she relies on other people to save her. This situation is no exception. Her new love interest and his mother (of all people) come up with a dramatic scheme to assist Ms. Trussoni in escaping from her unstable husband's clutches. This memoir will be of interest to all those who are intrigued by the inner workings of other people's relationships.