Jeannette, we appreciate your story, but I guess we were hoping for a bit more from The Glass Castle. Aren’t we tough reviewers? Certainly your story offers more than enough to discuss. However, the clubbin’ friends wanted more of that discussion from you!
Reviews seem to be the same from around the town. When I first started reading, two women stopped me on the bus: “Oh, The Glass Castle? You only need to read the first few chapters, they just keep moving from nothing town to another.” Having finished, I will mention that the two women were wrong. The family stops moving around, but things do not stabilize for Jeannette or her siblings. I think really my bus mates were hinting that the book never adequately highlights conflicting emotions or thoughts from the author. Not that it needs to. If I were Jeannette, I would probably want to write my book similarly. Plop out the story, and I will let you decide how I should feel about this because though I have had a lifetime to figure it out, I still have no idea.
I would never ask Jeannette to write more than what she has, because the story is valid as it is. However, the story still leaves readers without any of the probable and varied emotions and thoughts from the author and her siblings.
Consensus says that this book is a necessary read but maybe not the most satisfying book to challenge preconceived ideas in an exciting or surprising way.
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