The glass castle: a memoir

room. "Now that Lori's gone," he said. "I'm reconfiguring the layout, and your room will be a lot ...

By late May, the wild bleeding hearts and the rhododendrons had bloomed, and the fragrance of ...

The one bus out of Welch left at seven-ten in the morning. I needed to be at the station before seven. Mom a ...

hand. The bus turned down the street and stopped with a hiss of compressed air in front of the Trailways ...

IV NEW YORK CITY IT WAS DUSK WHEN I got my first glimpse of it off in the distance, beyond a ridge. All ...

with crowds backed up waiting to cross the intersection, cars jammed together, and papers blowing every which ...

New Yorkers were. It was true, I learned that night, that if you tried to stop them on the street, a l ...

could afford—the South Bronx. The yellow art deco building must have been pretty fancy when it opened, ...

storefront on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the old Ex- Lax factory. The owner, publisher, ...

the woods, tinkering with a discarded two-stroke engine, chopping wood, or carving a block of wood into ...

activist who described a particular job program as a throwback to the Progressive Era. I had no idea what ...

porch and gashed her head. When Lori heard that, she declared it was time for Maureen to move to New Yor ...

That night the psychologist told me I had a phone call. "Jeannettie-kins!" It was Mom. "Guess what? ...

to help carry the conversation. "So, what's the plan?" Brian finally asked. "You're moving here?" "We have mov ...

But it was Dad who was really getting to Lori. While he hadn't found steady work, he always had mysterious w ...

"Lori's doing the right thing," she said to me. "Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenalin ...

"You can't just live like this," I said. "Why not?" Mom said. "Being homeless is an adventure." As ...

parents were out there, too, that she had no idea what it was like to be down on your luck, with ...

Professor Fuchs walked around from behind her lectern. "What do you know about the lives of the ...

She had her collection of antique Indian jewelry, which she kept in a self-storage locker. There was the two-ca ...