The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts her and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents.
The memoir stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks and is now under development as a film by Paramount. By late 2007, The Glass Castle had sold over 2.5 million copies, had been translated into 22 languages, and received the Christopher Awa...
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The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts her and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents.
The memoir stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks and is now under development as a film by Paramount. By late 2007, The Glass Castle had sold over 2.5 million copies, had been translated into 22 languages, and received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award (2006) and the Books for Better Living Award.
Jeannette Walls is the author and the voice of the book, The Glass Castle. She wrote a memoir of her life through her eyes growing up from a child, into a talented young lady. Jeannette explains through her writing about the struggles she and her siblings faced due to their parents unrealistic ways of living. She described herself as too tall and not good looking which made it hard for her to fit in with all the moving around the Walls family did....
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