Biography
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
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Walls recounts a childhood of hunger and chaos with clear-eyed tenderness, refusing both bitterness and sentimentality.
A memoir of a nomadic, impoverished childhood with brilliant, deeply dysfunctional parents — an alcoholic father full of grand plans and a mother who rejected responsibility — and the children who raised themselves.
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