One night, en route to a party and in the interior of a taxi, discovers his mother Jeanette rummaging through a dumpster in New York. This is the beginning of this terribly funny and compelling novel of American writer Jeannette Walls.
Through the pages of the novel know the story of the Walls family, white trash, but with a high proficiency in self-esteem, pleasure to live and madness. "My mother would read Faulkner, Hemingway and apologized to us saying that he knew that this was not good literature." An alcoholic parent but with a great sense of rebellion and science, a mother more concerned about herself, but at the same time instilling their children to be independent, is the framework which develops sentimental education, moral and more of the novel.
Rex Walls see how your child is stolen from the hospital after it is burned with hot water, how they live in an abandoned train station, how to become heirs to a huge house in Phoenix and leave everything to go to Walch, a poor mining town in Virginia, where they become the poorest of the poor. And with economic poverty, and sometimes spiritual, there is always the excitement of building a castle of glass to take him out of all their problems.
not know what else to say about this excellent novel. It made me laugh, made me feel a stab in the heart, were intrigued me, as in the chapter where Jeannette has not had to eat and she stole food from the trash and when I got home, finds her hiding, eating a huge bar of chocolate and excuse is: forgive son, but as her father is addicted to alcohol, I'm on sugars.
Wow, excellent novel. Mexico has not yet reached, but in June may be achieved in all the libraries released under the seal of SUM of letters, editorial Santillana.
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