The glass castle: a memoir

disappearing behind us. In the pitch-black night, there was nothing to look at but the road ahead, lit by the c ...

woman with green eyes and a strong jaw. She told me I was her favorite grandchild and that I was goi ...

people in her family lived until they were about a hundred. The doctors said she'd died from le ...

WHEN WE PULLED UP in front of the house on North Third Street, I could not believe we were actually go ...

Mary's Church, about five blocks away. Mom, however, said nuns were killjoys who took the fun out of ...

"What?" Dad asked. "What?" Brian shook his head. "Nothing," he said. Emerson had its very own nurse who gave ...

I nodded. Lori looked at me and then burst into tears. On the way home, she kept seeing for the first t ...

artist, like Mom. As soon as we'd settled into the house, Mom threw herself into her art career. She erecte ...

favorite break down. She kept them in her studio. She never sold anything she wrote, but fr ...

"Well, they're too damn small for your mother and me," he said. Lori and Brian had climbed on their bikes ...

a library where the librarians recognized us because we went there so much. They helped us find books ...

grow. Despite our wondrous appliances, life in Phoenix wasn't total luxury. We had about a gazillion cockroaches ...

the can open with his wire cutters, hammered it flat, and nailed it over the hole. He needed more pat ...

At night Mom and Dad always left the front door and the back door and all the windows open. Since we had ...

The next day, when Dad came home and we told him what had happened, he said he was going to kill ...

beautiful church I had ever seen. It was made of sand-colored adobe and had two soaring steeples, a giga ...

"Don't worry, God understands," Mom said. "He knows that your father is a cross we must bear." CITY LI ...

"Where are we going?" I asked. We hadn't been on a single expedition since we moved to Phoenix. I misse ...

you let them know you're not afraid, they'll leave you alone." Dad pointed to the biggest, scaliest alligator. ...

outside the fence opposite the cheetah. The animal came closer to the bars and studied him curiously. Dad kept ...