Title: The Glass Castle Author: Jeannette Walls Hardback: 288 pages ISBN: 9780743247535 Dad came home in the middle of the night a few months later and roused all of us from bed. “Time to pull up stakes and leave this shit-hole behind,” he hollered. We had fifteen minutes to gather whatever we needed and pile [...]
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