Book Club Chooses “The Glass Castle” A Memoir By Author Jeannette Walls

Stop by the library and check out “The Glass Castle” a memoir by author, Jeannette Walls. The library’s book club members have selected this book, for the month of January. “The Glass Castle” is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revealing look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching 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 loathed 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. This memoir spent a total of 261 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and is now under development as a film by Paramount. Jeannette Walls is author to several other books including her newest novel, “The Silver Star”.

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