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# 4.6/5 Stars from 49,756 Reviews Major Motion Picture Adaptation NYT #1 Bestseller The Glass Castle: A Memoir (book)

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## Key Features

- • **Community of Readers:** Join nearly 50,000 reviewers who have rated this memoir 4.6 stars, becoming part of a passionate, engaged literary circle.
- • **Authentic & Raw Memoir:** A gripping tale of resilience and redemption that resonates deeply with readers seeking real, transformative stories.
- • **Cinematic Storytelling:** Adapted into a major Lionsgate film starring Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson, bringing the memoir’s vivid narrative to life.
- • **Unrivaled Bestseller Status:** Ranked #1 in multiple biography categories, proving its cultural impact and literary acclaim.
- • **Intellectual & Emotional Depth:** Explores complex family dynamics with lessons in physics, geology, and fearless living—perfect for the curious, ambitious mind.

## Overview

The Glass Castle is a #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Jeannette Walls, celebrated for its raw and inspiring portrayal of a dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family. Praised by critics and readers alike, it has been adapted into a major motion picture and holds top ranks in multiple biography categories, backed by nearly 50,000 glowing reviews.

## Description

THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER— FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” ( Entertainment Weekly ) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. 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. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family. The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.

Review: Sad but amazing - This was heartbreaking but so good. I was locked in from the first few pages and it never let me go. This genuinely read like a fiction novel with how much the author went through in her life. If someone had written this as a piece of fiction I would have called it out for being unrealistic. The author was such an engaging person to follow. She had this childlike wonder that she managed to hold on to for far longer than I would have expected. You could see her making excuses for things and ignoring the obvious signs that something was wrong into her childhood, even as her siblings seemed to be gaining understanding. The way she sticks with her dad made me sad, even as I could feel the love the moments he was present. As much as the dad feels like the more obvious villain, I think I dislike the mom more. The neglect she shows these kids and the way she clearly doesn’t want to be a mom is awful. The way she handles the dangerous or traumatic situations that the author brings to her made my blood boil. The fact that she doesn’t care enough to do anything to help her family drove me nuts. To me she was a more insidious horror as she tended to skate under the radar. I know it shouldn’t be her responsibility but I wish the older sibling did more for her and Brian in the same way that the author did stuff to protect Brian. I understand there was more of an age gap, but I couldn’t imagine letting my brother go through the things these two went through. I would be keeping an eye on him or helping out and standing up for him with our parents. I know she’s a victim as well so again I don’t blame her. But it felt like the author did so much to support Brian and Lori was basically a non-factor. Speaking of non-factor everyone let Maureen down. That poor girl was raised by strangers and no one seemed to care. I understand it was likely better for her than being at home in that she had the basic necessities. But no one was watching her. Who knows what was happening at these houses. She could have been in danger and no one would have known. They all dropped the ball there and I wasn’t surprised that she turned out the way she did. Overall the writing on this was great and I couldn’t put the book down. I was saddened but hooked. Such a great book!
Review: Glass Castle Review - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about Jeannette’s life from the time she was three years old, to her adult life. Jeannette faces many challenges growing up, financially and socially. The Walls family moves around many times throughout Jeannette’s life. They were always on the run. The Walls family spent the most amount of time in Battle Mountain, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; Welch, West Virginia, and New York City. The Walls family consists of Rex and Rose Mary Walls, and their four children: Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen. Rex and Rose Mary rose their kids to believe that life was one adventure after the next and that they should always be open to the new opportunities life has for them. Jeannette was undoubtedly the most adventurous of the children. She looked up to her father’s positive mindset and wanted to be just like him, despite his alcohol addiction. Rex’s alcoholism created more and more financial trouble for the family as the children grew up. When Rex was sober, however, he encouraged his family to the best they could be every day and to live life to the fullest: and that’s exactly what they did. Living life to the fullest is integrated subtly throughout the story along with the theme of family obligation. In part II of The Glass Castle, Jeannette talks about how her mother, Rose Mary, would often take the kids to Sunday mass and occasionally Rex would tag along. Jeannette explains that Rex was an atheist and often challenged the priest during the sermon. The rest of the church was always appalled by the behavior of this man, but Rose Mary would simply say “Don’t worry, God understand. He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.” Rose Mary and the kids knew that no matter how much Rex drank, swore, or broke things, they had an obligation to remain loyal to him as his family. While The Glass Castle is a hefty book, it’s really a quick read. A story like Jeannette’s completely envelopes the reader and makes reading a book feel like watching a movie. Jeannette has a fantastic writing style and reveals what her life growing up was actually like. Throughout The Glass Castle, Jeannette touches on emotional subjects such as loss, alcoholism, rape, abuse, and molestation. One of the first (of many) scenes in The Glass Castle that made me cry was in the very beginning of the memoir when the Walls family packed up to move from a southern Arizona town. The family piled in the car and were on the road when Quixote, the Walls family cat, was growling and meowing about being shoved in the car. Rex Walls’ response was simple. He told his family that any who wasn’t up for an adventure wasn’t welcome. With that, he tossed poor Quixote out the window and kept on driving. Rex and Rose Mary raised their kids to be tough and to never become attached to anything. Jeannette’s parents definitely had a unique parenting style. However, I appreciate that Rex and Rose Mary always reminded their kids to do their own thing without fearing judgement. In one particular part of the book, the Walls kids were swimming and playing in a public fountain. When people started to stare, Rose Mary Walls simply yelled “mind your own beeswax.” then turned to Jeanette and said “Ignore the fuddy­duddies!" I think any parent who preaches self expression is quite admirable. The Glass Castle is a book for readers of any level and will make every reader walk away feeling differently and seeing the world through a new lens.

## Features

- -A memoir

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,129 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Journalist Biographies #2 in Author Biographies #8 in Women's Biographies |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 49,862 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sad but amazing
*by K***E on October 2, 2026*

This was heartbreaking but so good. I was locked in from the first few pages and it never let me go. This genuinely read like a fiction novel with how much the author went through in her life. If someone had written this as a piece of fiction I would have called it out for being unrealistic. The author was such an engaging person to follow. She had this childlike wonder that she managed to hold on to for far longer than I would have expected. You could see her making excuses for things and ignoring the obvious signs that something was wrong into her childhood, even as her siblings seemed to be gaining understanding. The way she sticks with her dad made me sad, even as I could feel the love the moments he was present. As much as the dad feels like the more obvious villain, I think I dislike the mom more. The neglect she shows these kids and the way she clearly doesn’t want to be a mom is awful. The way she handles the dangerous or traumatic situations that the author brings to her made my blood boil. The fact that she doesn’t care enough to do anything to help her family drove me nuts. To me she was a more insidious horror as she tended to skate under the radar. I know it shouldn’t be her responsibility but I wish the older sibling did more for her and Brian in the same way that the author did stuff to protect Brian. I understand there was more of an age gap, but I couldn’t imagine letting my brother go through the things these two went through. I would be keeping an eye on him or helping out and standing up for him with our parents. I know she’s a victim as well so again I don’t blame her. But it felt like the author did so much to support Brian and Lori was basically a non-factor. Speaking of non-factor everyone let Maureen down. That poor girl was raised by strangers and no one seemed to care. I understand it was likely better for her than being at home in that she had the basic necessities. But no one was watching her. Who knows what was happening at these houses. She could have been in danger and no one would have known. They all dropped the ball there and I wasn’t surprised that she turned out the way she did. Overall the writing on this was great and I couldn’t put the book down. I was saddened but hooked. Such a great book!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Glass Castle Review
*by J***N on November 6, 2017*

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about Jeannette’s life from the time she was three years old, to her adult life. Jeannette faces many challenges growing up, financially and socially. The Walls family moves around many times throughout Jeannette’s life. They were always on the run. The Walls family spent the most amount of time in Battle Mountain, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; Welch, West Virginia, and New York City. The Walls family consists of Rex and Rose Mary Walls, and their four children: Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen. Rex and Rose Mary rose their kids to believe that life was one adventure after the next and that they should always be open to the new opportunities life has for them. Jeannette was undoubtedly the most adventurous of the children. She looked up to her father’s positive mindset and wanted to be just like him, despite his alcohol addiction. Rex’s alcoholism created more and more financial trouble for the family as the children grew up. When Rex was sober, however, he encouraged his family to the best they could be every day and to live life to the fullest: and that’s exactly what they did. Living life to the fullest is integrated subtly throughout the story along with the theme of family obligation. In part II of The Glass Castle, Jeannette talks about how her mother, Rose Mary, would often take the kids to Sunday mass and occasionally Rex would tag along. Jeannette explains that Rex was an atheist and often challenged the priest during the sermon. The rest of the church was always appalled by the behavior of this man, but Rose Mary would simply say “Don’t worry, God understand. He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.” Rose Mary and the kids knew that no matter how much Rex drank, swore, or broke things, they had an obligation to remain loyal to him as his family. While The Glass Castle is a hefty book, it’s really a quick read. A story like Jeannette’s completely envelopes the reader and makes reading a book feel like watching a movie. Jeannette has a fantastic writing style and reveals what her life growing up was actually like. Throughout The Glass Castle, Jeannette touches on emotional subjects such as loss, alcoholism, rape, abuse, and molestation. One of the first (of many) scenes in The Glass Castle that made me cry was in the very beginning of the memoir when the Walls family packed up to move from a southern Arizona town. The family piled in the car and were on the road when Quixote, the Walls family cat, was growling and meowing about being shoved in the car. Rex Walls’ response was simple. He told his family that any who wasn’t up for an adventure wasn’t welcome. With that, he tossed poor Quixote out the window and kept on driving. Rex and Rose Mary raised their kids to be tough and to never become attached to anything. Jeannette’s parents definitely had a unique parenting style. However, I appreciate that Rex and Rose Mary always reminded their kids to do their own thing without fearing judgement. In one particular part of the book, the Walls kids were swimming and playing in a public fountain. When people started to stare, Rose Mary Walls simply yelled “mind your own beeswax.” then turned to Jeanette and said “Ignore the fuddy­duddies!" I think any parent who preaches self expression is quite admirable. The Glass Castle is a book for readers of any level and will make every reader walk away feeling differently and seeing the world through a new lens.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read it in Three Days Flat
*by E***P on January 19, 2024*

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, an emotionally gripping story of the major events and day-to-day struggles of the narrator, is a stunning read. It has earned both a Christopher Award and a New York Times Notable Book award and was the #1 New York Times Bestseller for 3 years. The author has also written titles such as Half Broke Horses and The Silver Star. Jeannette Walls is the second-oldest child of 4, with the oldest being a girl named Lori, the youngest below Jeannette a boy named Brian, and the absolute youngest a girl named Maureen. Her mother’s name is Rose Mary Walls and her fathers’ was Rex Walls. The memoir begins not with the start of her life, but with a memory of her mother and her sitting and eating in a restaurant when she was an adult. It establishes an important baseline for her relationship with her mother throughout the book, and also sets up what kind of person her mother is for the reader. From there, the book continues on about her life as a young girl and the various different places she and her family travel to as she grows older. It features such sites as Battle Mountain, Phoenix, and other locations, and all throughout this bout of traveling, the interactions between the characters establish their various personalities and ideals. Her father is an intelligent, ambitious man with eccentric tendencies and grand plans for continuing their adventures. He teaches her much about math, science, the stars, and all the while still fulfilling the role of a caring father. Her mother is an aspiring artist and writer, and wherever they travel, whole rooms and a multitude of materials are dedicated to her mother practicing her craft. Brian is an athletic boy, always out playing and roughing it up in all the new places they frequently travel to. Lori is the typical intelligent bookworm, only occasionally venturing outside to play and normally stuck reading a book inside on a comfortable perch. Maureen is only a young baby for most of the book, and so I’ll not go into detail about her. It quickly becomes apparent to the reader, though, that her family is, to put it simply, heavily dysfunctional. For all her father’s brilliance, grand plans of adventure for the family, and everything he taught Jeannette, he was a severe drinker, and it wasn't uncommon for him to be gone for hours at a time, getting absolutely pickled and only stumbling home when he was retrieved by his family or managed the walk there. Her mother, in spite of loving her children, tended to place her own wants and desires above theirs were her art or literary career concerned, like the time she kept refusing to go to her job at their local school unless forced to by her kids. She also held out of the ordinary beliefs, and this governed the way she raised her kids. The chief example of this is when, as a very young child, she was being treated at a hospital for severe burns after spilling boiling water over herself at home. After a few weeks spent at the hospital, getting her burn wounds healed, her family broke her out of the hospital, with her mother herself suggesting that they should’ve just taken her to a local Native American witch doctor.

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