TY - BOOK AU - Walls,Jeannette TI - The glass castle: a memoir SN - 074324754X AV - HV5132 .W35 2006 PY - 2005/// KW - Walls, Jeannette. KW - Children of alcoholics KW - United States KW - Biography KW - West Virginia KW - Welch KW - Dysfunctional families KW - Case studies KW - Poor KW - Homeless persons KW - Family relationships KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Alcoholics KW - Child of Impaired Parents KW - Family Relations KW - Homeless Persons KW - Poverty KW - Autobiography N1 - Includes a preview of the author's book : Half broke horses; I.A woman on the street -- II. The desert -- III. Welch -- IV. New York City -- V. Thanksgiving N2 - 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. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities ER -