01/20: Amazon Names Jeannette Walls’ “The Glass Castle” the Best of the Decade
January 20, 2010
Recently releasing its editors’ picks for the Decade’s Top 10 books, Amazon named Jeannette Walls’ landmark debut memoir, The Glass Castle, to the prestigious list of books that “will be among the first we reread when we wants to remember the decade.” In distinguished company, Walls appears alongside acclaimed authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
In a decade when memoirs were more popular than ever, Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle stood out from the pack. Still on the New York Times best-seller list after three years, the book is a moving account of growing up in extreme poverty, and a compelling story of overcoming tremendous obstacles. A speaker who conveys warmth and generosity at every turn, Walls shares anecdotes from the book, revealing that we all have more in common than we think, and that by confronting the past we only improve our future.
In October, Walls released her second New York Times best-seller, Half Broke Horses, a “true-life novel” that digs deeper into her family’s colorful story, this time from the perspective of her grandmother.
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