Immediately we are drawn into the over-riding question of the book: how did this come about? In that first chapter author Jeanette Walls contrasts her successful career and life in New York City with her homeless mother, cheerfully living by her own, unique set of values. I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster. From dysfunctional families to drama-filled mother-daughter relationships, all of the memoirs below delve into some of the best and worst of family life.The very first line of this memoir grabbed me by the throat. If you loved The Glass Castle and are looking for more incredible family memoirs written by women to dive into after reading the book and watching the film, the 11 picks below definitely fit the bill. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and they eventually found their way to New York.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. For those uninitiated, The Glass Castle is a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.
And with the big screen adaptation hitting theaters on August 11, more people than ever are finding their way to her story. Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle has long been celebrated as one of the best of the genre since it was published in 2006.
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