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Alison HennenThe scrap Castle Book ReviewThe Glass Castle was overall very strange. Written by Jeannette Walls in her point of view, this curb is her memoir that she wrote to share her story with the rest of the world. It won the 2005 Elle Readers Prize and the 2006 American Library Association Alex Award. The title comes from an unkempt promise from Jeannettes father, but preferably than seeing it as a letdown, Jeannette remembers it as a hope that things will get better, a trait she must have received from her mother. While The Glass Castle focuses mainly on her immediate family, she later wrote another book, Half Broke Horses, about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith.The book starts off with Jeannette, a successful adult, taking a taxi to a nice party. When she looked out the window, she saw a woman digging through the garbage. The woman was her mother. Rather than calling out to her or look hi, Jeannette slid down into the seat in fear that her mother would see her. When askin g her mother what she should say when people ask about her family, Rose Mary Walls further told her, Ju...