The glass castle : a 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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Physical Description
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288 pages - Publisher New York ; Toronto : Scribner, 2006.
- Copyright ©2005
Content descriptions
General Note: | 2006 Alex Award winner |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 19.00 |