The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

355 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family. Jeanne...

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Moods

emotional 82%
reflective 62%
sad 61%
dark 40%
inspiring 36%
challenging 32%
adventurous 30%
hopeful 26%
tense 22%
funny 14%
informative 7%
lighthearted 2%

Pace

medium 62%
fast 23%
slow 13%

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