num_pages: 288
description: In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.
language: English
title: The Glass Castle
titlecomplete: The Glass Castle
characters: Lori Walls, Rex Walls, Jeannette Walls, Brian Walls, Maureen Walls, Rose Mary Walls
genres: Autobiography, Adult, Biography Memoir, Biography, School, Audiobook, Contemporary, Memoir, Book Club, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1155762
places: West Virginia, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Scribner