***Now appearing at the LHS Library***

May 2, 2011

Each week I will highlight one of the new books that we have received this year.
These books are available for checkout from our library.

This week’s book is titled:
The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

From the author at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/7139443/ns/today-books/ March 2006:
Jeannette Walls spends most of her time digging up dirt on other people’s lives. As the gossip columnist for MSNBC.com, Walls tracks down the latest rumors about Britney Spears’ marriage, Michael Jackson’s peccadilloes and the latest target on the PETA hit list.
But her road to celebrity gossip columnist was tougher than any angry call she’d ever received from an enraged publicist. In her autobiography, released this week by Scribner, Walls reveals a sad and sometimes tragic childhood that few but her closest friends knew about.
“The Glass Castle” is a no-holds barred tale of a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the hypnotic wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It’s a riveting story and a testament to Walls’ indomitable desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline.