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Also by Jeannette Walls:

Hang the Moon, April 2023
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The Silver Star, June 2013
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Half Broke Horses, October 2009
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The Glass Castle, January 2006
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The Glass Castle, March 2005
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THE GLASS CASTLE
By: Jeannette Walls

Memoir of A Remarkable Family

Scribner
January 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 074324754X
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

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