Description: From one of the bestselling memoirists of all timeNauthor of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Glass Castle"Ncomes a stunning and heartbreaking novel, set in 1970, about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world.
Brief description: Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.