The Glass Castle
By Jeanette Walls
Registration opens Dec. 5
Join the book discussion on Thursday, Jan. 8, 4 p.m., about The Glass Castle, a 2005 memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Walls' 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.
Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix and graduated with honors from Barnard College, the women’s college affiliated with Columbia University. She published this memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book was adapted into a film and released to theaters in August 2017.
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EVENT DATE/TIME: Thursday, Jan 8, 4-5:30 p.m.
LOCATION: LLL Center
COST: Free Event
MAXIMUM: 24