The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Further Reading:

Non-Fiction

• In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country by Kim Barnes
• Gal: a True Life by Ruthie Bolton
• All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
• Running with Scissors: a Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
• Sickened: the Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
• The Summer of Ordinary Ways by Nicole Lea Helget
• The Liar’s Club: a Memoir by Mary Karr
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayson
• There are No Children Here: the Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
• Blackbird: a Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck
• A Hole in the World: an American Boyhood by Richard Rhodes
• This Boy’s Life: a Memoir by Tobias Wolfe
• Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

Further Information/Research:

• Alcoholics Anonymous Canada:  www.aacanada.com
• The Hidden Homeless: www.hiddenhomeless.ca
• Jeannette Walls (Simon & Schuster):  www.simonandschuster.biz/content/destination.cfm?tab=7&pid=367420
• MSNBC – Life in ‘Glass Castle’ Only Made Walls Stronger:  www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7139443/
• Public Health Agency of Canada (Abuse):  www. phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/index-eng.php 
• The Salvation Army:  www.salvationarmy.ca

Further Watching:

• Girl, Interrupted (2000) staring Winona Ryder & Angelina Jolie
• The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) starring Rob Lowe & Jodie Foster
• Running With Scissors (2006) starring Alec Baldwin
• This Boy’s Life (1993) starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Robert DeNiro
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) starring Johnny Depp

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