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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I made an error in typing the name of the book - it is Glass Castle.

I thought it was moving near the end, when she is planning her move away from the family, that he father pulls out the old drawings he's managed to keep all those years and says they can start planning her room.

I also agree that the overarching message is you can overcome anything.  It's clear that while he parents were, at best, unconventional, they were also smart and curious about the world around them.  That foundation of reading and love of learning is what ultimately served her siblings and her well.  She certainly learned resilience and making the best of a bad situation.

[b]I read the bit when her father's mother is (possibly?) molesting her younger brother, and how she and her older sister stood up the grandmother to protect him.  And later, she and her older sister reflect that perhaps their father is the way he is because of the treatment he received at the hands of his mother. [/b]

I"m surprised she hasn't (yet?) written more thoroughly on her life in NY.  I've googled and found interviews that provide more info.  [/quote]

Possibly he was molested, but he was seriously mentally ill, probably schizophrenia, manic depressive, or bipolar.  Many people are molested in childhood without becoming paranoid or delusional.  Many people with mental illness do become alcoholic though.  Walls obviously is hung up on trying to excuse her father's reprehensible behavior and hang the state of the family on the mother.  She did write a subsequent book about her mother's childhood.  Maybe trying to balance the scales.  The book isn't that well written.  It's just a page turner b/c it's horrifying.  It felt as though she was gilding the lily.  Angela's Ashes is better written.[/quote]

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