The Glass Castle

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Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heartSunday Independent

A terrific story, grippingly toldSunday Times

I read The Glass Castle straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazementSpectator

While Jeannette Walls was living on Park Avenue, covering the Academy Awards and attending black-tie parties at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her parents were squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side.

Rex Walls, her father, was an ingenious adventurer and a hopeless alcoholic. Her mother was an artist who abhorred domestic routine and the chores of motherhood: Why should I cook a meal that will be gone in an hour when I can do a painting that will last forever? Funny sad, quirky and loving, The Glass Castle is an almost incredible story of a nomadic, impoverished childhood.

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