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Glass Castle
By Jeannette Walls
The most amazing thing about this memoir is in making yourself believe that " its all true". ! The author infuses her formative years with the fury, love, and indomitable spirit it would take to survive in this supremely dysfunctional family.
The father is eccentric and sometimes intelligent and original, but ruins it all with his compulsive drinking. The mother is selfish in choosing to gratify her own wants and desires over the most basic needs of her children, and wasting her education and inherited money in a variety of mindless hedonistic pleasures.
The miracle is that the children learn to do whatever it takes to survive, stay together as a family and finally find lives of their own n New York when they are old enough to be independent.
Jeannette Walls is a great story teller and writes with a rhythm, sense of humor and honesty that defies description.
No matter how much the reader would like to deep six these parents, the intelligence, imagination and sheer resilience of these three siblings carries the day, to say nothing of the loyalty involved to stay the course.
The prose is immensely readable and one does not want to put these memories away until we know what happened to these remarkable family members.
The Glass Castle won the 2005 All Readers Prize and the 2006 American Library Association Alex Award. You are certain to find it at the Whitefish Library as well.
Published by: SCRIBNER
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Copyright : © 2005 by Jeannette Walls
Reviewed by: Joan G. Smith, 03/12/07
Copyright : © 2007 by Joan G. Smith
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