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Alison HennenThe frosting Castle Book ReviewThe Glass Castle was overall very strange. Written by Jeannette Walls in her express of view, this book is her memoir that she wrote to share her story with the rest of the world. It won the 2005 Elle Readers simoleons and the 2006 American Library Association Alex Award. The title comes from an unkempt promise from Jeannettes father, but rather than seeing it as a letdown, Jeannette remembers it as a hope that things will get better, a trait she must abide received from her mother. While The Glass Castle focuses mainly on her present(prenominal) family, she later wrote another book, Half Broke Horses, about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith.The book starts hit with Jeannette, a successful adult, taking a taxi to a thin party. When she looked out the window, she saw a charr digging through the garbage. The woman was her mother. Rather than calling out to her or expressing hi, Jeannette slid down into the toilet in fear that her mo ther would see her. When asking her mother what she should say when people ask about her family, Rose Mary Walls only told her, Ju...