The Glass Castle is a harrowing read on several counts but is also very revealing and matter of fact, an eye opener ona targic situation which eventually makes good.
In this novel, Jeanette Walls epitomises the situation she had in her childhood where she was brought up with two eccentric parents, particularly her father who was a depressive alcoholic. Her home was full of regular shouting matches, beatings and general disorder which obviously had a profound and distinctive effect on her childhood.
Obviously the memoir stirred considerable commotion and controversy when it was published. The opening part where Walls describes herself waiting ...
