The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book reminds me of both Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis and Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island, except it is exceptionally well-written. Seems that the Etched in Sand author suffered even more than Jeanette Walls (not that it is a competition) and Hillbilly Elegy is the not-so-subtly political, so it might be an interesting comparison for readers interested in the experience of poverty, which is the experience of most of the world. (Specifically, 10% worldwide live in extreme poverty which is less than $1.90 a day, and 80% live on less than $10 a day, according to the World Bank.)

The story in The Glass Castle is pretty compelling and picks up speed in the last one-third of the book.

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