PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jeannette Walls lives in New York and on Long Island and is married to writer John Taylor. She is a regular contributor to MSNBC.com.
Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart * Sunday Independent * A terrific story, grippingly told * Sunday Times * Like J.D. Salinger or Hemingway before her, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let a story tell itself * Sunday Independent * 'I read The Glass Castle straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazement. Jeannette Walls has managed to balance her account with great precision; as she and her siblings did, we must both love and hate her parents * Spectator * There isn't a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionate book * Marie Claire * Wall's journalistic bare-bones style makes for a chilling, wrenching, incredible testimony of childhood neglect * Kirkus Reviews * Affection, shame and guilt run side by side in this unforgettable memoir of a childhood spent ''on the skedaddle'' * Woman and Home * Funny and brilliantly written through a child's eyes, recreating a unique family life * Evening Herald * Walls has joined the company of writers such as Mary Karr and Frank McCourt who have been able to transform their sad memories into fine art * People * Walls has a God-given knack for spinning a yarn, and The Glass Castle is nothing short of spectacular * Entertainment Weekly * Extraordinary * Time * Each memory is more incredible than the last... That Walls recounts them so well and in such detail is our good fortune * Plain Dealer * Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling. The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In The Glass Castle, they have * New York Newsday * The Glass Castle is the kind of story that keeps you awake long after the rest of the house has fallen asleep * Vogue * Utterly engaging and teeming with incident. This is a life so vividly rendered that the reader feels present at every moment * Express * Walls has carved a story with precision and grace out of one of the most chaotic, heart-breaking childhoods... This deeply affecting memoir is a triumph in every possible way, and it does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spirit * Dani Shapiro *
