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Respectfully, what on EARTH was going on in this book.

I read this days ago and I'm still speechless.

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The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls' memoir of a vagabond childhood wandering the country with her siblings and "free spirit" parents. It's beautifully written and, like any incomprehensible disaster, impossible to look away from.

We've got mental illness. We've got joyful childhood memories. We've got the slow realization of growing up that your parents aren't as perfect as you thought when you were little. Generational curses passed down in the form of trauma. Warm, complicated, loyal family bonds. Child sexual assault. Wack amounts of child neglect and endangerment that somehow by the grace of God nobody died from. AND MUCH MORE.

I'm not sure what to do with this other than silently nod at it and walk away. I definitely recommend this book if you're interested in the many twisted-up shades of awful and beautiful in family relationships, psychology, or stories of resilience in hardship.