The Glass Castle

Description

A story about the early life of Jeannette Walls. The memoir is an exposing work about her early life and growing up on the run and often homeless. It presents a different perspective of life from all over the United States and the struggle a girl had to find normalcy as she grew into an adult.

First Sentence

I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.

Description

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 another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing -- a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.

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Other Editions

• The Glass Castle: A MemoirPaperbackScribner2006-01-01
• Glass Castle 10dAudio CDRecorded Books2005-01-01
• The glass castleHardbackScribner2005-01-01
• Glass castleSimon &2006-01-01
• Bo li cheng baoJiu zhou chu ban wen hua shi ye you xian gong si2006-01-01
• Glass castleSimon & shuster2006-01-01