Right there, we meet the alternative world view and values of Rose Mary Walls, and her husband Rex. Jeanette takes her mom out to dinner after the dumpster sighting, hoping she might be able to help her out a little. Immediately we are drawn into the over-riding question of the book: how did this come about? In that first chapter author Jeanette Walls contrasts her successful career and life in New York City with her homeless mother, cheerfully living by her own, unique set of values. I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.
The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.The very first line of this memoir grabbed me by the throat. 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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