01563cam a2200313 4500 430759598 TxAuBib 190128s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 20-17416930 YYK TxAuBib Walls, Jeannette. The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls. New York : Scribner, 2005. 288 pages ; 21 cm. "First Scribner trade paperback edition 2006.". A woman on the street -- The desert -- Welch -- New York City -- Thanksgiving. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY. CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS WEST VIRGINIA WELCH BIOGRAPHY. CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS-UNITED STATES-BIOGRAPHY. DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES UNITED STATES CASE STUDIES. DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES WEST VIRGINIA WELCH CASE STUDIES. HOMELESS PERSONS FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS NEW YORK (STATE) NEW YORK. HOMELESS PERSONS-NEW YORK (STATE)-NEW YORK,-FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. POOR WEST VIRGINIA WELCH BIOGRAPHY. POOR-WEST VIRGINIA-WELCH-BIOGRAPHY. PROBLEM FAMILIES-UNITED STATES-CASE STUDIES. WALLS, JEANNETTE.