Walls, Jeannette, — The Glass Castle: a memoir.

NY, Scribner, (2005). 22nd ptg. VG PB. When sober, Jeannette's father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace. life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated domesticity and didn't want to raise a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.