THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary one-of-a-kind nothing short of spectacular ( Entertainment Weekly ) memoir from one of the world s most gifted storytellers. 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. The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts.