A review by crystalsparkles
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

It reads like a season of Shameless, it’s so sad. Over and over adults failed those kids. And yet they continued to have relationships with their parents. Families can be so complicated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Blood, Trafficking, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, and Death of parent