The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Sep 2010 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Jeannette Walls

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

This is a great book! It's an unbelievable story. I'm glad the author decided to share her experiences with the world. I've read the book twice, and now I'm reading it for the third time for a project for school. This story is a first-hand account of what it's like growing up with mental illness and addiction in your family and how it can affect children. I definitely recommend!

Outrageous and Heartwarming - A story about four siblings with the wildest upbringing you can imagine, The Glass Castle is a tale of struggle, choice, and siblinghood that leaves you shocked and in awe. A glorious reminder that our situations and circumstances should never be what defines us.

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About the author

Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.