The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, 2005
A daughter of brilliant drifters grows up hungry, ashamed, and fiercely loyal, then has to decide what to do with the past.
Jeannette Walls
Walls was a New York columnist who kept her homeless parents secret from friends; The Glass Castle stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for years.
Feels like family, power and tenderness.
The distance between a nice evening out and the life you came from.
I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster. Books by Jeannette Walls
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