THE GLASS CASTLE

JEANNETTE WALLS

• 1960-
• Arizona, California
• Journalist, columist
• Left for Barnard when she was 17
• Began the Glass Castle's draft when she was 19

NOTABLE

• Translated in 22 languages, 2.7 million copies sold
• Christopher Award, Books for Better Living award, ALA's Alex Award
• Paramount film adaptation, March 2013
• 261 weeks on New York's Bestseller List

ABOUT

• A childhood memoir
• 1957-2005
• Nevada, San Francisco, California; Phoenix, Arizona
• Welch, Virginia - New York City
• Lost dreams, forgiveness, courage and loyalty

REX AND ROSEMARY WALLS

• Skilled worker, erratic jobs, loving
• Alcoholism
• Artist, teacher, reader
• Selfish, carefree

LORI, BRIAN AND MAUREEN

• Smart, brave, and pretty
• Artist, retired officer
• Jeanette Bivens, Dinitia Hewitt
• Ernie Goad

THE ADVENTURE

• FBI agents, blood suckers, gestapo...
• The Glass Castle
• Venus
• Cantaloupes and green grapes

Untitled Slide

• Hiding Hersey's chocolate
• Burying the Glass Castle
• Margarine incident
• Canned ham

QUOTES

• "If you don't want to sink, you better
• figure out how to swim."
• " 'Oh yeah? I said. 'How about Hitler? What was
• his redeeming quality?' 'Hitler loved dogs,' Mom
• said with out hesitation."

QUOTES II

• " 'Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your fath
• that your father is a cross we must bear.' "
• "But despite all the hell-raising and destruction and he had
• created in our lives, I could not imagine what my life would be
• life- what the world would be like- without him."