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Jeannette Walls
We've read and reviewed Jeannette Walls's memoir book The Glass Castle on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle is a memoir of growing up poor and nomadic under two parents who were equal parts magnetic and ruinous. It's a clear-eyed account of childhood neglect that somehow refuses to curdle into bitterness, and that restraint is exactly what makes it land.