num_pages: 288
description: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe 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.The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
language: English
title: The Glass Castle
titlecomplete: The Glass Castle
characters: Lori Walls, Jeannette Walls, Rex Walls, Rose Mary Walls, Maureen Walls, Brian Walls
genres: Audiobook, Book Club, Biography, School, Adult, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Contemporary, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 1155553
places: New York City, New York, West Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Scribner