![]() (Oscar winner Brie Larson plays the teenage and young-adult versions. Then there’s the new movie version of the book, adapted by filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton and starring three different actresses as Walls at various ages. Notable episodes of mistreatment by Rex include being thrown into water over her head so that she would learn to swim and being left alone, at the age of 13, with one of her father’s lecherous adult male co-workers. The book, described by the New York Times as “an alternately wrenching and exhilarating yarn,” chronicles the harrowing childhood that Walls and her three siblings (Lori, Brian and Maureen) experienced with their father, Rex, and mother, Rose Mary, wandering from town to town before settling in Rex’s hometown of Welch, West Virginia. It’s the same when she’s speaking about her best-selling 2005 memoir “The Glass Castle,” whose child protagonist - Jeannette Walls - was the daughter of a nomadic, often jobless and homeless alcoholic and his painter wife. ![]() ![]() When talking about her former life as a gossip columnist for such venues as New York magazine and MSNBC, she uses the first person: “I was a ‘journalist,’ in air quotes,” she jokes. ![]() ![]() Jeannette Walls has to be careful with pronouns. ![]()
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