A couple of weeks ago, I was in Border's looking through their bargain books for reading material. I came across this book and decided to give it a try.
The book is written by Jeannette Walls who is a regular contributor to MSNBC and married to writer John Taylor. They both live in Virginia. The Glass Castle has won the 2005 Elle Readers' Prize and the 2006 American Library Association Alex Award.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a 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 Wall's 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 when their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is an astonishing, haunting telling of children growing up in a dysfunctional home.
A must read.
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"n a time of civil war, famine and religious strife, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge. Against this backdrop, lives entwine: Tom, the master builder, Aliena, the noblewoman, Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge, Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts a curse. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age."
This is taken from the web site - Ken Follett
It was one of the few books that I thought about during the day and could hardly wait to get back to it. It's at most libraries. A fantastic read.
Oh, and thanks for commenting on my Attitude article. I appreciate it.
Don't many of us have to do that? Whether it is a traumatic memory, a grudge, a secret fear or worry....I think everyone can relate, on some level, to this book. Of course, many people who had the author's background wouldn't have survived or been so resilient or would have ended up in low income jobs. What she did is truly amazing.!
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