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Book Review of The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle
Author: Jeannette Walls
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


A wonderful memoir. A story of growing up in a dysfunctional family where the father was an alcoholic and the mother an eccentric artist. Often there was no food for the children, and this family moved from place to place, the children sleeping in cardboard boxes or in the car or under the stars in the desert. This memoir is a bittersweet story that I was so engrossed in that I read it in one night.