The Glass Castle

About The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle (2005) is a memoir about growing up with nomadic, intellectually brilliant, and profoundly neglectful parents — Rex and Rose Mary Walls — who moved their four children across the American Southwest and Appalachia, living in poverty while Rex promised to build a glass castle someday. One of the bestselling memoirs of the twenty-first century, it is a book about poverty, parental failure, the love that persists alongside damage, and the complicated stories we tell about the families that raised us.