The Glass Castle: A Memoir (book) - THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER8212FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, oneofakind, 8220nothing short of spectacular8221 (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world8217s 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, Jeannette8217s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children8217s 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 didn8217t 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 astonishing8212a 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