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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

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The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls "I read the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I usually don't actually read memoir, but I had heard about it, and it sounded really more like fiction, and I was really intrigued by the fact that she's a very successful journalist. It goes through her life with very strange and unconventional parents up until the present. I believe that the book starts with her seeing her parents homeless on the street and on Park Avenue. She's very matter-of-fact about her childhood. Actually, there's a piece of it at the beginning -- so I'm not spoiling it -- where she undergoes a very, very significant accident where she burns a lot of her body because she's three years old and she's cooking hot dogs on the stove. The way that she tells the story is, again, very matter-of-fact, and actually almost humorous when she talks about her time in the hospital. I really enjoyed it tremendously. Like I said, I was reluctant to pick it up because it is non-fiction, it's a memoir, and it kind of came out at a time where memoir was, there was some controversy to it because of the James Fry book that came out. I sensed that it was very accurate, and perhaps would have liked to have heard a little bit more about the siblings. That's really the only criticism that I can possibly think of because I have recommended this book to many, many people. In terms of stars, I would rate this book -- gosh, somewhere between a four and a five."