“It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty.”

— Jeannette Walls

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About Jeannette Walls

Author • American

Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist widely acclaimed for her best-selling 2005 memoir, "The Glass Castle." The book chronicles her deeply unconventional and poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of...

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