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The Glass Castle
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Overview
The Glass Castle is a nonfiction memoir published by American journalist Jeannette Walls. Published in 2005, book chronicles Walls and her three siblings’ nomadic and impoverished upbringing by their severely maladjusted parents. In recounting her childhood, Walls explores themes like Letting Go of Childhood Illusions, The Struggle to Understand a Parent’s Poor Choices, The Destructiveness of Codependent Relationships, and The Connection Between Poverty and Abuse.
A critical and popular success, The Glass Castle remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 260 weeks in hardcover and 440 weeks in paperback. In 2017, director Destin Daniel Cretton adapted the book into a film starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, and Woody Harrelson. Since the success of The Glass Castle, Walls has published several other books, including the novels Half Broke Horses (2009) and Hang the Moon (2023).
This study guide refers to the 2006 reprint edition published by Scribner.
Content Warning: The source material and guide feature depictions of alcohol addiction and sexual assault of minors.
Summary
The year is 1963. Three-year-old Jeannette Walls lives in an Arizona trailer park with her older sister Lori, her younger brother Brian, and her parents Rex and Rose Mary, referred to henceforth as Unlock all 77 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
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