[PREORDER] The Glass Castle: A Memoir
This is a preorder book, available to order from 25 June to 10 July 2025. Estimated arrival is 2–4 weeks after the preorder period ends (it may arrive sooner!).
You grow up thinking chaos is normal until you realize how much you survived.
In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls paints an unforgettable portrait of a childhood spent on the move: sleeping under desert skies, scavenging meals, and learning to fend for herself while her parents chase grand, impossible dreams.
Told with honesty and compassion, this memoir explores what it means to love parents who are as brilliant as they are unstable. Walls never flinches from the hardships. Hunger, neglect, wild beauty. But she also never forgets the fierce creativity and freedom that shaped her early years. It’s a story about resilience and what we carry into adulthood, even after we’ve left home.
By turns heartbreaking and hopeful, The Glass Castle reminds us that while we cannot choose where we come from, we can choose who we become.
📗 In The Mood For…
Feeling Seen
An unvarnished memoir that embraces imperfect, real-life family bonds.
✅ Portrays the complexity of parents who both inspire and disappoint
✅ Offers readers honesty without judgment and empathy without sugarcoating
Challenging My Views
Shows how trauma and love can coexist and how survival shapes the soul.
✅ Explores poverty, addiction, and the blurred lines of family loyalty
✅ Invites readers to reflect on their own definitions of home and stability
📘 Stories About…
Family & Generations
More than a coming-of-age. It’s a portrait of inherited patterns, and the work of breaking them.
✅ Examines the deep ties that bind siblings together
✅ Honors the endurance of children making sense of their parents’ choices
Pain, Suffering & Recovery
Struggles with hardship but insists on the possibility of something better.
✅ Offers a path toward compassion for oneself and one’s past
✅ Balances painful memories with glimmers of grace and gratitude