I am currently reading The Glass Castle. The book is about a family that's always on the run from what the father says is "the FBI", but in reality is just debt collectors. You read from the point of view of the youngest daughter, who we see grows to be extremely - almost scary - mature at the young age of 4. She can read, write, curse, and can shoot practically any gun; her father taught her these skills in case the "feds" ever catch up to them in the desert.
This book connects to the world in ways I never thought possible. Never did could I fathom a four year old who was a better shooter than her father, or a family who over the years has been so hardened by loss and rejection from the outside world. It makes me regret things I've said in the past about how hard my life was because I didn't have the newest I-phone. It makes me wonder how many children out there are suffering while I'm sitting in my air conditioned house with enough food to last for a year. I wonder how many people throughout my life I've just walked passed and didn't give a second thought to how they were doing, I think everyone should read this book.
8/27- the glass castle 20 min
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The Glass Castle sounds like a good book, but with a somewhat disturbing plot. To think the farther put his family through all of that while running away from debt collectors. Not to mention that a very young child can shoot,write, and swear at her age.
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