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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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I loved this book. I was absorbed from page 1. It's not a happy story about growing up dirt poor for the most part, but the author expressed it in such a way that we become fully engaged with the MC's ability to forge ahead and leave her unfortunate circumstances. Those being her parents who, although aren't stupid, but lack the positive ambition of being good parents. They so seldom work that the children find ways to support their parents, even though mama is holding on to acres of property that could provide them a suitable life. Even after all four children leave home and become productive adults, the parents are content to leave a homeless life. It was a sad/happy ending.