Book Review: “The Glass Castle” – Jeannette Walls
Jean handed me this book just before we left the country. It looked interesting but I didn’t realize how amazing of a story it would be. The synopsis: a true story of a transient, usually homeless, family told from the point of view of one of the daughters, now a successful journalist living in New York City. Jeannette’s living conditions would make most of us gawk in disapproval but they never seemed to phase her optimism nor joy as a child. She spent nights in a cardboard box, ate moldy stale bread when there was nothing else to eat and sometimes just didn’t eat, dug a huge hole in their backyard to throw trash so they didn’t have to pay the dump bill, and dealt with an abusive alcoholic father and a lackadaisical self pitying mother. But her dreams of what can be never falter and eventually lead her to a life very different from the one in which she grew up.