I went to the library yesterday to find a new book to read. I came home with The Glass Castle. It looks like a really good book. It is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. I haven't started reading it yet, but I will share the synopsis on the back. "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, teching 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 Walls 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 as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing- a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar, but loyal, family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity".
This is a picture that is in the very beginning of the book. It is Jeannette's parents, Rose Mary and Rex Walls, on their wedding day.
This sounds like a really good book. I'm wondering if this mostly about her childhood and how her parents impacted that, or if its how her upbringing is currently impacting her adulthood. I wonder if the difference between her sober father and her father when drunk will be emphasized because it seems like it would be a key point in developing her personality as a child-the curiosity sparked when he was sober and the self-protection learned when he father was drunk and destructive.
I went to the library yesterday to find a new book to read. I came home with The Glass Castle. It looks like a really good book. It is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. I haven't started reading it yet, but I will share the synopsis on the back. "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, teching 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 Walls 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 as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing- a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar, but loyal, family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity". 
This sounds like a really good book. I'm wondering if this mostly about her childhood and how her parents impacted that, or if its how her upbringing is currently impacting her adulthood. I wonder if the difference between her sober father and her father when drunk will be emphasized because it seems like it would be a key point in developing her personality as a child-the curiosity sparked when he was sober and the self-protection learned when he father was drunk and destructive.
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