The Glass Castle - A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Scribner

2017

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 1501171585

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.

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Confesso que foi uma leitura lenta, porque tive que parar em muitos trechos difíceis. A primeira vez que li esse livro ainda estava na escola, muitas coisas passaram batidas. Senti tanta raiva. Raiva da negligência, do comportamento imaturo dos pais, dos filhos tendo que agir como adultos… Essa história tinha tudo para ser um clichê social, mas aquelas crianças eram diferentes. Enfim, uma história linda.