A memoir of growing up with brilliant, reckless parents who kept moving
What it is about
Jeannette Walls describes a childhood with parents who were creative, charming and deeply unreliable. The family moved often and often had little money or food, and the children learned to look after themselves. She tells it plainly, without self-pity.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who like memoirs about family and survival, and book clubs that want a true story to talk about.
What you will get
A true story that is hard to put down and easy to discuss. It shows how love and neglect can sit in the same family.
Behind the book
The title refers to the dream house her father kept promising to build, and a film version followed in 2017.
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The Glass Castle Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Memoir · Family · Resilience
Length
289 pages · ≈ 8 h
More about this book
Characters
Jeannette, her siblings and her parents, Rex and Rose Mary.
Setting
Small towns in the American West and West Virginia, and later New York.
What makes it different
A harsh childhood told with warmth and humor.
Feel
Honest, moving and sometimes funny.
Educated
Wild
Into the Wild
Eat, Pray, Love
Tuesdays with Morrie
When Breath Becomes Air