Raves and Reviews
Praise for The Glass Castle:
Walls has a God-given knack for spinning a yarn, and The Glass Castle is nothing short of spectacular.”
—Entertainment Week
The Glass Castle is the kind of story that keeps you awake long after the rest of the house has fallen asleep.”
—Vogue
Some people are born storytellers. Some lives are worth telling. The best memoirs happen when these two conditions converge. In The Glass Castle, they have.”
—New York Newsday
Walls has joined the company of writers such as Mary Karr and Frank McCourt who have been able to transform their sad memories into fine art.”
—People
Praise for Half Broke Horses:
Walls [is] … a pretty doggone good storyteller.”
—Janet Maslin, New York Times
Hugely entertaining and provocative… A triumphant novel of a fearless, progressive woman who will not be corralled.”
—Donna Seaman, Booklist starred review
[Jeannette Walls is] the third generation of a line of indomitable women whose paths she has inscribed on the permanent record, enriching the common legend of our American past.”
—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review
Praise for The Silver Star:
With immense charm and warmth, Walls, the author of The Glass Castle, has created a lively account of kids finding a way to thrive in the absence of reliable parents.”
—Real Simple
Jeannette Walls transports us with her powerful storytelling…Using Bean’s expertly crafted, naively stubborn voice, Walls contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away.”
—Abbe Wright, O, the Oprah Magazine
