6/20/2023 0 Comments Read the glass castle![]() But The Glass Castle‘s film adaptation took a little longer. Today, it’s not unusual to see the rights to a story purchased by a major studio well before the date it’s set to hit bookshelves. From the moment this book was published, it just felt like we’d see a film adaptation. A heartrendingly raw and honest memoir, Jeannette Walls shared with the world the story of her impoverished and nomadic childhood in The Glass Castle. ![]() Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis and Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America are proof of this uptick in books providing real world insight onto poor white America and how they got here.īut rewind twelve years, and there’s a new book receiving lots of buzz in the publishing world that is different from what we’ve seen before. ![]() Books analyzing the epidemic of poverty and addiction in forgotten mine towns and the backwoods of Appalachia are pretty popular right now. ![]()
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