The glass castle: a memoir

"That's it!" "And did it have pointed ears and evil eyes with fire in 'em, and did it stare at you ...

head with a chuckle. That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to fr ...

sometimes we'd play ghost and he'd chase us. He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom m ...

I NEVER BELIEVED IN Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn't a ...

fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out ...

light. He explained to me that planets glowed because reflected light was constant, and stars twinkled beca ...

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of ...

are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop." Dad sai ...

swollen belly than I was about her. The car bounced on holes and rocks, brush scratching against its side ...

River, founded back in the nineteenth century by some guy who figured he could get rich turning the desert into ...

"Six," I lied. "Is that split lip okay?" he asked. "This lil' ol' scratch?" I asked. "You should hav ...

chain-link fence he had discovered that morning and ran into the iceberg-lettuce farm next to ...

moved in confused, jerky motions, as if she couldn't understand why Mom's belly wasn't still around her. ...

Dad peeled through Blythe at a hundred miles an hour, ran a red light, cut the wrong way up a one-way ...

"Here goes the adventure!" I whispered. "Shhhh!" Lori said. The U-Haul started up and lurched forward. Maureen ...

stopped crying. I wedged myself into a corner. It seemed like we'd have to ride it out. Then a pair ...

The main street was wide—with sun-bleached cars and pickups parked at an angle to the curb—but only a f ...

refrigerators get delivered in. A little while after we'd moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talk ...

tracks were too close to the front door to get the pickup in position. So the piano stayed where it was. ...

and you still had the whole day ahead of you. Sometimes Dad went with us, and we'd march through th ...