This book was sad. I read it in two nights. It felt like fiction. The way she approached her family and childhood with love and tolerance, anything less than anger and grief, was mouth opening. It was like watching a train wreck. It was painful to see the transition as they grew up and understood more and more that what was happening actually shouldn't. I was so glad to read the part where they ended up saving each other, pulling each other one by one out of that hell and into New York.
What is the saying about glass houses? That you shouldn't throw stones if you live in one. I guess judging anyone's life or parents leads you back to your own and makes you vulnerable to the same sort of judgements. Still, they were such over the top wretched parents. Anyway, I am eager to read her new book that is coming out soon.
i did love this book though. she has a new one coming out? same style?
ReplyDeleteit's kinda fiction - what she calls a true-life story. It's the story of her grandmother (the one who left her mom the place in Arizona). i have the advance reader's copy. the book should be out in october. i loved the glass castle too. i just wish it weren't a true story.
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