The Glass Castle
A Memoir
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About The Glass Castle
A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 9.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Standard-length read
- Best for
- Readers seeking survival, reflective, memoir, nonfiction
Why readers are finding The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, published in 2007, is a 371-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Survival, Reflective, Memoir, Nonfiction.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-1-416-54466-1
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 371
