The Most Addictive Books of the Last 25 Years
Here they are, in no particular order: the books we passed on to our closest friends,
fought over at book club, lugged with us on every move and think about still. You can
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The Glass Castle
By Jeannette Walls
288 pages;
Scribner
Because out of all the dysfunctional family stories,
this one was the instant classic.
In this searing memoir, Walls relates her hardscrabble
childhood with two eccentric—to put it mildly—parents. The
family lived like nomads and, later, in poverty as their father drank and their
mother fell deeper into dysfunction. Walls not only escaped her desperate
situation, becoming a successful writer in New York, but also got out with her
kindness, humor and generosity of spirit intact.
— Dawn Raffel
Published 04/03/2015
