She didn’t believe in cooking a meal “that would be gone in one afternoon, while a painting could last forever.” The parents were great parents, except where food and safety and shelter were concerned. Her mother was an artist who encouraged the four children’s independence by basically neglecting them. He was a smart man with little education but had big dreams (one of which was to build a glass castle, hence the title of the book) he just fails to realize any of them. She grew up in extreme poverty with a highly intelligent but alcoholic father who couldn’t keep a job and had the family “skedaddle” from town whenever things got bad. The Glass Castle is the story of Jeannette Walls’ childhood.
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