The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls' book The Glass Castle was published in 2005. Walls recalls her troubled and migratory yet vivid childhood, stressing her resilience and her father's attempts at forgiveness. Despite her family's imperfections, their love for one another and her unique outlook on life enabled her to carve out a prosperous existence for herself, ending in a career in journalism in New York City. The title of the book alludes to her father's eventual unfulfilled vow to create his ideal house for the family, a glass castle.

Walls' balanced view on the virtues and negatives of her childhood has garnered extensive reading and favorable critical acclaim in The Glass Castle. It has been utilized in North American grade school curricula, which has caused considerable controversy; The Glass Castle was ranked #9 on the Office for Intellectual Freedom's list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in 2012. Among the reasons for the challenge are the book's "offensive language" and "sexually explicit content".

Detailed information:

Author: Jeannette Walls
Language: English
Genre: Memoir

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35996816