RaveBooklistWalls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, allows the story to spill out in this remarkable recollection of growing up ...she remembers the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured, and she looks back at her parents: her flighty, self-indulgent mother, a Pollyanna unwilling to assume the responsibilities of parenting, and her father, troubled, brilliant Rex... His grand plans to build a home for the family never evolved: the hole for the foundation of the The Glass Castle, as the dream house was called... Shocking, sad, and occasionally bitter, this gracefully written account speaks candidly, yet with surprising affection, about parents and about the strength of family ties —
for both good and ill.