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The Glass Castle
2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by American author Jeannette Walls. Walls recounts her dysfunctional and nomadic upbringing, emphasizing her resilience and her father's attempts toward redemption. Despite her family's flaws, their love for each other and her unique perspective on life allowed her to create a successful life of her own, culminating in a career in journalism in New York City. The book's title refers to her father's ultimate unfulfilled promise, to build his dream home for the family: a glass castle. The Glass Castle has received broad readership and positive critical feedback for Walls' balanced perspective on the positive and negative aspects of her childhood. It has not uncontroversially been used in some North American high school curricula; it was listed ninth on the Office for Intellectual Freedom's list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in 2012. Reasons cited for challenging the book's inclusion in public school curricula include "offensive language" and being...
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