This book, published in 2005, is an additional reading suggestion for the month of November. It was on the NY Times Bestseller List for 100 weeks and is under development as a movie.
It is a biographical story told by Jeannette Walls and aside from her Southern accent, she bears no outward traces of the extremely poor, nomadic childhood she chronicles in her brilliant new memoir, The Glass Castle. The tall, elegant MSNBC columnist bravely bares her lifelong secret of growing up with her three siblings and having to eat butter for dinner, make her own braces, and suffer the whims of her artistic, intelligent and utterly selfish parents, one she thought would get her kicked out of polite society and leave her socially ostracized once it was revealed. Walls’ greatest strength is her ability to tell her story with compassion and empathy rather than bitterness, letting the story unfold from her childhood perspective, from cooking hot dogs at age three and catching on fire, to growing up faster than most of us can probably imagine having to ever do. (gothamist.com)
For more information and interviews with the author check out these links:
Gothamist interview
2006 MSNBC
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