The Glass Castle

You may know Jeannette Walls from her MSNBC gossip column. She recently decided to write about her life and where she came from. Like Burroughs, she had some extremely hard times, including having an alcoholic father and living a life of poverty since she can remember. This woman is so strong after everything that she has seen and experienced in her life, it's just unbelievable.

I never really read many memoirs before until Running With Scissors. When my mother recommended this I just had to read it. I kept having to remind myself that this was, in fact, a memoir, because it is so sad and unexpected. Walls paints a picture that I couldn't even imagine in my dreams. This isn't a way to talk bad about her parents or where she came from; she wrote it because she says she felt like a "fake", living a life of success, when she knows where she came from. I really can't explain this book, you just have to read it.

I want to use examples to show you how sad/unbelievable things are, but I really don't want to ruin anything for you.