Mom reluctantly gets a job as a teacher, and relative stability returns to the Walls household until a delinquent adolescent named Billy Deel attempts to rape eight-year-old Jeannette. Most days, the refrigerator and pantry are barren, forcing the kids to steal food from classmates and neighbors. Life is comparatively stable for about six months until Dad loses his job and starts spending his days and nights drinking. Jeannette now has a baby sister, Maureen. Mom has a teaching degree and comes from a wealthy family, yet she prefers to paint and write all day, even if it means living in squalor.Īfter roughly two years of living a nomadic lifestyle across the American Southwest, the family settles in a small rented house in Battle Mountain, Nevada. He often makes grand plans that never come to fruition, like the construction of a massive solar-powered home he calls the Glass Castle. Dad is a talented and intelligent electrician who struggles to maintain a job due to his alcoholism, intransigence, and paranoia. Three-year-old Jeannette Walls lives in an Arizona trailer park with her older sister Lori, her younger brother Brian, and her parents Rex and Rose Mary-referred to henceforth as Mom and Dad. At the start of the narrative, the year is 1963.
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