When he is drunk, Walls’ father is cruel and manipulative, hurling insults and drinking away any paycheck that could house or feed his growing family. When he is sober, Wall’s father is brilliant and captivating, dripping with charm and radiating charisma. The narration then dives into the first-person perspective of a gangly, buck-toothed child who loyally follows the whims of her booze-addicted father and adrenaline-addicted mother as they careen about the country in dilapidated cars and in various stages of homelessness. The book opens with an adult Jeannette Walls slumping down in the back of a party-bound cab in New York City to avoid meeting the gaze of her mother who is wrapped in rags and digging through a trash can. The Glass Castle Summarized (No Spoilers) My grief led me to quit my job and take off on a solo adventure around the world where, for a while, I was always looking toward the next location instead of enjoying my current circumstances. I was the same way when my partner died of cancer. If her cab idles in traffic for a minute, she gets out to walk. On a personal note, I deeply relate with Walls when, at the end of the book, she is grieving and becomes restless and unable to stay in one place for long. This is helped by the fact that Walls narrates the book herself (a venture that, believe me, doesn’t always work out so well!)

Author Jeannette Walls details a childhood of poverty and starvation with the same hunger-pang clarity as does Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes.īut the storytelling is so vivid that you feel as though you, too, are in the back of a 1960s Plymouth headed with the Walls family on the next adventure to nowhere and everywhere all at once.

If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.By delightful, I don’t mean that the words were easy to absorb. (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) From memoir to movie: The trick transition of 'The Glass Castle' - Israel Culture - The Jerusalem Post

The glass castle a memoir