The glass castle /
Walls, Jeannette,
The glass castle / Jeannette Walls. - Reprint edition. - 341 pages ; 24 cm
I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving.
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family. When the money ran out, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town Rex had tried to escape. As the dysfunction escalated, the children had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they found the resources and will to leave home. Yet Walls describes her parents with deep affection in this tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life.--From publisher description. In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
American Library Association - Alex Award winner, 2006 Elle Readers Prize winner, 2005.
9781844081820
Walls, Jeannette.
Children of alcoholics--United States--Biography.
Children of alcoholics--West Virginia--Welch--Biography.
Dysfunctional families--United States--Case studies.
Dysfunctional families--West Virginia--Welch--Case studies.
Poor--West Virginia--Welch--Biography.
Homeless persons--Family relationships--New York (State)--New York.
362.82092 / WAL
The glass castle / Jeannette Walls. - Reprint edition. - 341 pages ; 24 cm
I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving.
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family. When the money ran out, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town Rex had tried to escape. As the dysfunction escalated, the children had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they found the resources and will to leave home. Yet Walls describes her parents with deep affection in this tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life.--From publisher description. In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
American Library Association - Alex Award winner, 2006 Elle Readers Prize winner, 2005.
9781844081820
Walls, Jeannette.
Children of alcoholics--United States--Biography.
Children of alcoholics--West Virginia--Welch--Biography.
Dysfunctional families--United States--Case studies.
Dysfunctional families--West Virginia--Welch--Case studies.
Poor--West Virginia--Welch--Biography.
Homeless persons--Family relationships--New York (State)--New York.
362.82092 / WAL