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First Memory from a trailer park in south Arizona
She burns herself making hot dogs and she goes to the hospital. -
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Finally settle down
After moving around and ducking and dodging places for around 7-8 years. They finally settle down in Battle Mountain when she was in second grade. -
The youngest sister
Maureen the youngest is born -
Grandma dies
Grandma dies and they move into her house down in Phoenix -
Dad tries to get sober
As Jeanette requests for her birthday wish he tries to get sober by locking himself in a room and fighting his "demons" while tied to a bed -
The move in with the Dad's parents
after living in Grandma's house for 2 years and the house falling apart they moved cross country from Phoenix to West Virginia -
They move to their own little house in McDowell County
They move from the dad house to the county next to it in a poor neighbor hood -
The house becomes a trash hole
The dad teases the idea of the glass castle and it never gets off the ground. They get picked on by the other kids because of their living situation. -
Other grandma dies
Erma dies during a big snowfall -
The kids make money
The child care inspector came around and they try to clean up and make some money on the side to help out the family and the mom gets a job -
The dad takes the money
He keeps asking for money and then forks her over to some creepy guy who attacks her sexually. Then he takes the check for the monthly expenses. -
Gets a new job
she goes from being paid 1 dollar an hour babysitting to making 40 a week at a jewelry store because they were tight on money and she said she was 17 when she was 13 she got the job. -
She fights back
She tells her parents to act like parents and take a belt whipping for it. -
She become a popular person
She is a journalist for the school paper and joins all sorts of clubs and the ones who didn't like her before sout her out for pictures because they wanted to be in the paper. -
Lori moves out
She goes somewhere in Iowa with the family Jeanette was babysitting. And gets a bus ticket to NY -
Dad's hero
Dad's hero and a native son of West Virginia Chuck Yeager come to the high school and accepts an interview from Jeanette and the dad gives her 20-30 questions for her to ask him. Dad was at home and sober when Jeanette came back and he was giddy with excitement. -
New York
Jeanette makes it to New York and finds her sister Lori behind the counter of a German coffee shop. She also finds out that new yorkers aren't as bad as everyone says they are. -
She beats the illusion
Dad's final thing to make her stay is the "Glass Castle" Jeanette sees right through it and keeps moving on with her life. -
New York Walls
They all moved out to New York in their own ways. Lori, Brian, Jeanette, and Maureen all went by bus and the parents went by a white van that broke down. Maureen lives with Lori, Brian and Janette live on their own, the parent spent time with each of the kids and then became homeless. -
Dad comes through
Jeanette is down $1,000 for the college and when the dad hears this he gives her $950 and a mink coat -
She marries
She marries Eric who she's lived with since she came out of college (4 years). She finds a good job in a newspaper and her dad helps her do research on the people for her gossip column. The parents live in a squat where the dad hot-wired an electric box to get heat for the 6 story building. -
Stabbing
Maureen stabs the mom after living with them in the squat after high school. She did it because the mom was kicking her out, she had some jobs and some boyfriends but neither lasted long. She was sent to a mental institution in upstate New York. -
Dad dies
He reportedly smoked 4 packs of cigarettes since he was 13 and had added a quart of booze to it as well. Brian has a wife and a kid, Lori lives alone and paints, Maureen lives in California after a year in a mental institution, and Jeanette breaks up with Eric because he wasn't the one for her. -
Thanksgiving get together
It's the first family meetup since the dad's death. Lori dressed all fancy, the mom dressed as a homeless person, brian brought his 8-year-old daughter, Jeanette introduced her new husband and his 15-year-old daughter from his last relationship.