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The One Book Villanova selection for 2008-2009 is:
Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a
revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.
When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's
imagination. teaching them physics, geology and how to embrace life fearlessly,
But when he drank, he was a dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a
free sprit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the
responsibility of raising 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.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing - a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
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About
the Author
Jeannette Walls lives in Virginia and is married to writer John Taylor. She is a
regular contributor to MSNBC. The Glass Castle also won the 2005 Elle Readers'
Prize and the 2006 American Library Association Alex Award.
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