The glass castle: a memoir - jeannette walls

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

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 worlds 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, Jeannettes brilliant and charismatic father captured his childrens 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 didnt 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.