Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs.Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York.
The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing-a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly.
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.
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” ( Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER- FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON
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