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Author Walls, Jeannette.

Title The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO WALLS    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B WALLS J.    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B WALLS    Check Shelf
Edition Scribner hardcover edition.
Description 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant 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 hated anything to do with domesticity. 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 12.0 105049.
Subject Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies.
Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies.
Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) -- New York.
Local Subject Poor people -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
Subject Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
Walls, Jeannette.
ISBN 9781439156964 hardcover
1439156964 hardcover
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