Jeannette Walls’s father always called her “Mountain Goat” and there’s perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents–Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic [...]
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir – Jeannette Walls
Posted in memoir, novel, tagged castle, coming of age, glass, jeannette, memoir, walls on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
