THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG
THE MOON
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular"
(Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted
storytellers.
The 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.
The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in
2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.