Author: Jeannette Walls
Novel: The Glass Castle
Biography
Jeannette Walls was born on April 21st 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives in Virginia with her family. A world known journalist, author and blogger best known for her gossip columns and novels The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses. Walls grew up with unconventional parents that let their children raise themselves; as expected violence and desperation ensured. The second child of four, Walls struggled to keep her family together and her perseverance shows in her work, she is up front and real. While her parents self taught her when they felt the need, Walls latched onto certain academic figures in her life, Miss Jeanette Bivens is an example of the few adults that saw how hard working and real Walls was and that encouraged her to pick up the pen and start working for the wave, to give the people what they want without hiding from the truth.
For two decades Walls hid her past with many reasons of her own and with the release of this novel came the release of her secrets; at least those written. Walls was born in Arizona and moved around to more places than she could count until the names of the cities and towns became one long blur. "The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant" and has emotionally educated individuals for years now. This novel illustrates the different sides of humankind, and exactly what kind of strength is required to accept and love them all.
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Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle. Simon and Schuster, 2006. 288. Print.
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