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The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

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Sep 13, 2010 Ellen Librarian rated it it was amazing

If you think you've got intractable issues with your family, check out the Walls family. Father Rex is great at drinking and dreaming - but holding down a job and taking care of his four children, not so much. Mother Rose Mary is too busy with her art and her books to do those little motherly things like cook meals or clean the house... when they have a house.

Walls tells the story of her struggle-filled childhood with clear, luminous prose that manages to portray such self-centered and often sel ...more

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Jun 21, 2010 Barbara rated it really liked it

Shelves: biography-memoirs-non-fiction, my-book-group-reads

Jeannette Walls grew up in a highly disfunctional family, especially her parents. Her parents never wanted to stay in one place very long and seemed to be running from something all the time.

Jeannette and her sibblings strived to get by eating out of dumpsters and just learning how to survive. Kids in school teased the family for being poor and wearing hand-me-downs, although they seemed to be bright students and knew more than the other students at that level.

Finally after they grow up they m ...more

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Oct 24, 2011 Kerry rated it really liked it

Shelves: my-books

Dearest mum,
I shouldn't have taken so long to read this. You were correct in it being a fantastic book that I've held hostage to your copy of for far too long. I'll never doubt you again. (Though you should never doubt a woman who orders 'The Naked And The Dead' drink with vigor and whim in front of your friends... EVER. I also have a fleeting suspicion that unlike my grandparents I'll never come over to her house to find her undergarments outside air drying on the back deck, but let's be hones ...more

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