Well, I finished the Glass Castle this week. It was a very sad story about the childhood of Jeannette Walls. The story then moved to her young adult life with her siblings getting out of the Appalachians and starting fresh in New York City. Their parents then pick up and move to NYC too. It details the struggles the siblings have with their relationship with their parents. Their parents choose to be homeless, poor and her father an alcoholic. They are torn but realize that they cannot change who their parents are and they take them for who they are. In the end the family drifts furthers away from each other and their father dies. The story ends at Jeannette's home for Thanksgiving, the first they have celebrated as a family for a long time.
It was a great story and good to see that children growing up in sad situations can thrive and break teh cycle and be successful adults.  The kids wanted to get out of tehir home situation so bad that they madeosome big decisions that would be scary to make, such as moving to a big city such as New York with no money and no plan. We can not choose our parents or change them and we can decide to make the best of it and the children did. There was no doubt their parents loved them but their parents did not know how to be parents.
I would recommend this book to anyone. It is an easy read and very heart wrenching too. It makes you ponder your own childhood and experiences growing up. Thankfully, I had incredible parents!
Since I am finished I will begin to read "Life of Pi".