The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a powerful memoir about resilience, family loyalty, survival, and the complicated bonds between parents and children. Walls recounts her unconventional childhood with parents who were brilliant, creative, and deeply flawed, raising their children in poverty, instability, and neglect.

Her father, when sober, filled his children’s minds with science, imagination, and fearless dreams, but his drinking made him unreliable and destructive. Her mother, an artist and free spirit, resisted ordinary domestic life and often left the children to fend for themselves. As a result, the Walls children learned to protect one another, care for themselves, and eventually build new lives in New York.

Honest, moving, and unforgettable, The Glass Castle is a strong choice for readers of memoirs, true stories, family drama, survival stories, and books about overcoming difficult childhoods.

Paperback, Hardcover, Very Good