The glass castle: a memoir

THAT YEAR I STARTED working for the school newspaper, The Maroon Wave. I wanted to join so ...

photographs. I'd take the Wave galleys and sit at one of the desks, my back firm, a pencil behind my ear, s ...

reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world. What the reporter w ...

was so warm that we ran around barefoot even in the dead of winter, about how we ate lettuce in the farm ...

fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence. When that happened, Mom would refuse ...

Lori caught up with me, and we walked for a while in silence. "Poor Mom," Lori finally said. "She's go ...

Before Mom left, she gave me two hundred dollars. That was plenty, she said, to buy food for Brian and Maur ...

over the cash, as if he knew I didn't have it in me to say no. And I didn't. I took out my green ...

"Have I ever let you down?" Dad asked. I'd heard that question at least two hundred times, and ...

"I'm his daughter," I said. He took a lick of foam and started asking me about myself, leaning in close ...

on that way for a couple of hours, with Robbie getting sloppy drunk, losing to Dad, and groping me when w ...

him and started dancing again, but I knew this was not going in a direction I wanted, ...

For a moment I considered not telling Dad. I was afraid there'd be bloodshed, since he was alway ...

accused him, he'd deny it and there'd be a loud yelling match that wouldn't do me any good. ...

During the slow spells, Mr. Becker and I watched the Watergate hearings on a little black-and-white TV. Mr ...

stopped by. Mr. Becker wanted her to give me some beauty tips. While she was showing me her different makeup ap ...

I wasn't about to give him that satisfaction. The next morning I took the watch out of the wooden box ...

"If I hadn't done that, I never would have had this breakthrough." "You can't quit your job," I ...

Mom rarely got angry. She was usually either singing or crying, but now her face twisted up with fury. We both ...

I could see the blood surge into his face. He grabbed me by the arm. "You apologize for that comment!" " ...