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The Glass Castle : A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))
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Jeannette Walls
Hardcover Description:
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 father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis
Average Customer Rating:
I absolutely loved this book
This is one fascinating memoir! The author describes her childhood growing up under the difficult conditions her parents created by their lack of ability and/or desire to hold down jobs, her father's alcoholism, her mother's run-away creativity, and their mutual impulsivity. But her parent's also had exuberance for life, and even brilliance, in the rebellious way of people for whom circumstance holds no real barriers to joy and adventure.
The author had three siblings who all grow up together as their parents take them from one hardscrabble town to another out west, till they finally end up living in West Virginia where the parents ability to function as adults goes from bad to worse. As the children enter their teen years, they learn ways to escape their parents' vicious circle of impulsive, mostly happy, but ridiciously absurd and irresponsible behavior.
Miraculously, they still manage to instill in their children both a love of the arts and early on, a realization that one must work for a living to put food on the table.
We learn firsthand in this book that it's not easy for a child to be brought up by an alcoholic father and a mother who prefers to draw and paint all day rather than even pick a few berries out back for their kids' dinners.
It also points to the resilience of some children to make their way to adulthood, not only in one piece, but also with barely a scratch, and to be able to draw from their youthful experiences the uplifting and creative elements of that time, emerging as someone much more than the sum parts of their past.
Emotional Story--Marvelous Writing.
Once I started reading this book I could not put it down. It is a story of abuse, neglect but also loyalty and love. The four Walls children were forced to endure a rootless, tragic and poverty filled childhood, but somehow managed to survive and even thrive. This is stark writing. Not a word is wasted. It's like Jeannette said: "Okay, this is the story of my life, take it or leave it. There is nothing saccharine or oh-woes-me about it. This is marvelous writing. It's been days since I finished this book and it is still affecting me. I remember scenes in the story and am angered by the overall selfishness of the alcoholic father and off-kilter mother, yet I cheer for the downright scrapiness of Jeannette and her brother and sisters. This is a wonderful book and you will come away changed for the better.
An Amazing family...
I wasn't excited about reading this book, but my book club picked it as February book. When I started reading it I was amazed at the abused that these children went through. I was also impressed at the skills that these children were able to receive from their incompetant parents. This book can be used in a discussion about nature vs. nuture. I was very impressed at the way the parents gave each of their children the gift of literacy. After I read the book I went out and bought a copy for my daughter to read. This is a book that everyone who is concerned with children should read.
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