Goodreads Score: 4.30/5 ☆
Moods: Emotional, Reflective, Sad
Content Warnings: Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Addiction

This heartbreaking, medium-paced memoir is a remarkable story of resilience and redemption, and a look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.

In spite of it being non-fiction, Jeannette Walls writes as if she’s telling a story; her style is that of eloquence and beauty. She does not take sides, and doesn't attempt to psychoanalyze her childhood. Walls ‘tells it like it was.’ It’s disquieting as a reader to be treated so frankly.

Though her parents were negligent, Walls does not describe them as villains, but she does not paint them as heroes either.

Rather, she illuminates them as complex human beings, highlighting the love which ties the family together.

Long story short, I loved The Glass Castle in that complicated way where something can crush your spirits in a magnificent fashion.