Synopsis: The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory 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 abhorred 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 beloved memoir that has lived on the bestseller list for more than six years.
When I read "Educated" months ago I was shocked at how some people live their lives and how much resilience they have to have to survive in their homes growing up. This book was no exception. This book was different from "Educated" as the Walls children protected each other and all had the same goal. They lived with two parents that were more interested in themselves, their hobbies and alcohol than the welfare of their children. The part of the story where they haven't eaten in 3 days and ended
mixing butter and sugar together just to eat something just made me cringe. And then they get in trouble for it because the mom might have wanted to bake bread eventually.
I then found out that this book was also made into a movie which I watched just after finishing this novel. There were so many things left out, because they couldn't fit every crazy thing in there, but there were some important moments too that they captured.
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