The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls • 2005
Devastation Rating
poverty parents memoir survival
Our Take
Walls grew up with parents who called poverty adventure and neglect philosophy. Her memoir is not an indictment — that is what makes it devastating. She loved them. The glass castle her father always promised to build was never built. The ending, which is also a dinner party, is the most uncomfortable reconciliation in memoir.
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