TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walls,Jeannette
TI  - The glass castle
SN  - 9781844081820
U1  - 362.82092 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Virago
KW  - Walls, Jeannette.
KW  - Children of alcoholics
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - West Virginia
KW  - Welch
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Poor
KW  - Homeless persons
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - GGEN
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - June2011
KW  - BestSellers
N1  - I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving.
N2  - 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
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