The Glass Castle

As the date of her wedding gets near, a successful New York gossip columnist comes to terms with the difficult relationship she has with her aggressively nonconformist parents. Adapted from Jeanette Walls's shocking memoir of growing up with an alcoholic father and an absent-minded mother, both of which make a statement of living outside the box, "The Glass Castle" is never as deeply unsettling as, say, "Mosquito Coast", but it still succeeds in describing how even the most extreme dysfunctionality can co-exist with love so strong and ancestral that makes severing family ties impossible. read more