For decades, Jeannette Walls hid her hardscrabble past as the child of two rebellious, nonconformist parents who led a family that was at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. But with her widely acclaimed memoir, The Glass Castle, a bestseller for more than five years, Walls joined the ranks of other extraordinary writers who have transformed the saddest of childhoods into timeless, uplifting prose about the resilience of the human spirit. Walls’s other books include Half-Broke Horses and The Silver Star.