Written by: Jeannette Walls
Submitted By: Susan Engler
What an amazing read. A memoir of a New York Times writer. Reveals the woman's childhood raised in poverty by nomadic parents, who dragged her and her siblings all over the south western American Desert towns. The father is an inventor who is always just on the verge of his greatest achievement---a marvelous glass castle-all solar sustained. Over the years his children discover life's betrayal, that he is never going to make this castle, just as he and their mother will never quite provide for them. And in the process they become the strongest of survivors bonded together in lost world of their parents fearlessness, and "excitement addiction" all overcome their neglect, nonconformity upbringing. And with generosity and deep affection Walls relates their tragic history. A true life story that is unbelievably sad, hilarious and inspirational in turn. A great read--I couldn't put it down.
