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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
Helpful Score: 16


This was a very good book! I enjoyed it immensely. The Glass Castle is a memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revealing look into a family deeply dysfunctinal though at the same time uniquely vibrant. It is a story of deep poverty, homelessness and hunger in which four children suffer greatly though grow up to be successful adults. The author, Jeannette Walls is a well-known journalist and regular contributor to MSNBC.