A Goodreads user asked this question about The Glass Castle:
why is it named a glass castle anyways? it doesnt have anything to do with the book! now i get what the saying "dont judge a book by its cover" means!
Damien Samson It was a blueprint of a glass castle that the father had promised to make. It was the ideal in the Auto-Biography that showed how her life turns out.
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by Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author)
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