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The Glass Castle
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Educated vs The Glass Castle: Which to Read First?
Educated and The Glass Castle are the two defining dysfunctional-family memoirs. Here's how they differ, what each does best, and which to read first.
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Books Like The Glass Castle: 11 Resilience Memoirs
Jeannette Walls's memoir of growing up with her brilliant, charismatic, catastrophically irresponsible parents — who moved the family constantly, never had enough food, and promised to build a glass castle — is the most-read American family memoir. These books share its mixture of love and horror, its unsentimental clear-eyedness about parents.
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