The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
Published by Scribner in Mar. 2005
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Adult, Memoir, Social Issues, Poverty
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Goodreads
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one...
