The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

After I read "Half Broke Horses," I was encouraged to read this memoir by the same author. It took me a while.
Wow, what a book! It's hard to believe that all of the stories in this book are real; some are quite hard to fathom.
Interesting....after I read the book I "googled" it and found an interview with Jeannette Walls. Many of the people who read the book did not feel that it was "depressing," but uplifting.  The obstacles that she faced as a child were overwhelming but she and her sister and brother managed to get out and leave for NYC where they became successful in their own right.