The Glass Castle

In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.

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display_description	Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. *MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER LIST** The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. 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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subject_facet	Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography, Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography, Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies, Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies, Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationships, Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography, Walls, Jeannette
title_display	The Glass Castle
title_full	The Glass Castle A Memoir, The glass castle [sound recording] / by Jeannette Walls
title_short	The Glass Castle
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topic_facet	Biography & Autobiography, Children of alcoholics, Dysfunctional families, Family relationships, Homeless persons, Nonfiction, Poor, Walls, Jeannette