“No one ever uses the front door!” Walls called, tearing out from behind the house. Credit Ilona Szwarc for The New York Times Hollywood has threatened a movie version for years Jennifer Lawrence was recently announced to play Walls. The book has sold 4.2 million copies and been translated into 31 languages. It tells the story of her outrageous upbringing by Rex, her alcoholic father who was probably bipolar, and Rose Mary, her mother, a self-described “excitement addict” who is a hoarder and also probably bipolar. When Walls published her memoir, “The Glass Castle,” in 2005, it became an instant classic. And Jeannette? “The only thing going for you,” her mother informed her, “was that you worked hard.”Īs I drove onto Walls’s 205-acre farm in Virginia and the Technicolor green grass and trees unfurled to reveal horses in their paddocks, it seemed clear that hard work had lost its power as a put-down. Maureen, the youngest, was the pretty one. Jeannette Walls’s mother branded her children this way: Lori, the oldest, was the smart one. When it comes to branding - the kind that marks you for life - corporations have nothing on families. Walls and her mother, Rose Mary, in the cottage on Walls’s farm where Rose Mary lives.
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