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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

A memoir of resilience, family, and finding strength amid hardship.


Minimalist pale blue cover with a small black-and-white photograph of a young girl covering her face in the center. The title The Glass Castle and author Jeannette Walls are printed in elegant dark blue type above and below the image.

Challenged for “offensive language” and depictions of child neglect — yet celebrated for its unflinching honesty.


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. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.








Have you ever read a memoir that changed how you see your own story?

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