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The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

Recommended by: Marla ( my rock star partner at MOPS)
Also recommends: The Space Between Us by Thirty Umrigar
Dates read: Nov. 5  - Nov. 12

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resiliencee and redemption, and 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.

My Thoughts:
I not normally a fan of memoirs. They sound whiny alot. But I did like this one. It made me love my family more and made our deals seem not so bad. I did like the way the author wrote, it was easy to keep with the story. And you could enjoy the humor even when she telling something kind of sad. Cause really the way that family lived was pretty sad. I thought is was good.