# [[The Glass Castle]] ### Author: [[Jeannette Walls]] ISBN: Publish Date: --- ## Summary: If I may, let me first preface this review with a little bit of background. I have never cried at a book. I am barely, if ever, one to cry at movies or television. Music gets to me, but that's pretty much it. The Glass Castle changed that sentiment, flipped it on its head. Because by the end of this tour de force, I was first teary-eyed, then bawling, and then promptly going upstairs to hug my mum and thank her for the life that she'd given me. [[Jeannette Walls]] narrates her life's story to the reader in a way that left me feeling dazed, unsure of whether I should scream and hurl whatever vitriol I could come up with at her parents, or laugh along with their family's truly one-of-a-kind humour and outlook on life. In this way, then, Walls has provided the most impeccable specimen of a memoir possible. Though her story is at times tragic and at other times euphoric, in the end, there isn't one sole feeling that the book left me with after its closing page. Instead, I was simply left sitting, mouth slightly agape, suddenly forced out of the world contained within its covers wondering why in the hell I hadn't read it sooner. The Glass Castle is a must-read. --- ## Highlights: - --- ## References: 1. ---