The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a memoir

This is a review of The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is a memoir, exceptional in many ways: the subject, the vivid descriptions of places and people at the center of personal attacks. This is a page turner from September 1

This is probably an exaggeration? In my opinion, yes, but what makes it so attractive, the extreme poses.

The main characters, the alcoholic father and mother are staggering. Jeanette Walls for his father was aKnight in shining armor. Everything he did, no matter how bizarre and disappointing is accepted or wonderful. You love him as a player.

The mother is a different story. Yes, that their ideas were outlandish, colorful and different. But for the player and his mother and himself as indulgent, opinionated and a textile artist, twisting of reality to their purpose in every step of the road. And 'this subjective or is it filters out the words by Jeanette Walls themselves? I think thelatter.

The shocking first pages, where Jeanette, in a taxi in New York City Spots mother rummaging through garbage street, and then, without stopping allowed to be guided to your destination.

The story continues with a flashback to his childhood and a good description of the family to stop in the desert to sleep under the stars, delivered by his father to his children his love of nature, with a gift of the fact and the memory of the night the star , buried in his memoryforever.

The Glass Castle, which his father built for his family, hoping to live some day is a continuous thread through the memories. His chances do not seem realistic that even while the walls are young, quite plausible to her and what they can to respect and admire.

The gutter vocabulary from parents and grandparents in the speech of every day is something you get used to, although you will be amazed as I was talking to mom and dad away from their parents, and talktheir parents.

examinations of school children are painful for the reader. The other children laugh at their tattered clothes, their body odor, the smell of their home environment. The walls have not enough money to pay for waste disposal, excavated, so that parents in a pit near the house and threw their waste into the pit.

As they become older, the magic of his father's situation, the tissue was reduced. The older sister as fast as possible to New York. Jeanette was soon followed by their accessionSister.

If he could bring his younger brother and sister. How, despite the trials and tribulations that he had the inspiration and determination to seek for themselves was even dropped from depth to the family, is quite a challenge, but not all were successful.

The ingredients are all there: two alcoholic parents, including four children, and mix in tolerance and love. It 's the recipe for a cocktail called Disaster.

This is not a story tofailure, 288 pages in paperback, published by Scribner.