Sometimes it is more that the story to tell assails you to be necessarily told. That's what happened to a Jeanette walls self-made successful writer from the open and poignant review of her own life.
The American dream cannot be understood without the due nightmares, those hardships that any ordinary citizen requires an iron will and maximum dedication. Because the country known as the country of opportunities usually offers them, as in any other place, between closed circles.
Particular details aside, the point is that Walls composed from that life experience a realistic, raw family story, romantic in that it ended up being tragic and overcoming. Then there is, of course, the essential ability to narrate with the subjective tone of the narrative gift that Jeanette found, surely the result of that sincere confrontation with everything she went through.
In the end Walls became a writer from a kind of elevation and improvement of something that many of us have done, keep a journal. Because everything would be born from that record of his experiences, that writing of the daily life made in his case an odyssey to end up exemplifying, motivating and captivating readers of all fields.
It also helps, of course, that Jeannette Walls was already a valued journalist when her first book came out. This is how everything conspired so that Walls became a literary boom as they are rarely remembered.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Jeannette Walls
The crystal castle
Life is fragile, exactly like a large crystal. In the worst case, it can jump into a thousand pieces, without possible recomposition and with the risk of breaking a cut in the attempt. Imagine a whole castle as a metaphor for the family, all rising in sparkling glass with its haunting sparkles ...
A few times in life we ​​come across exceptional books. Books that are slowly imposed on us, that surround us with their magic and that settle in our hearts to never leave. This is the story told by Jeannette Walls, a successful journalist who for many years hid a great secret. That of his family. A family at the same time deeply dysfunctional and tremendously alive, vibrant.
The father, Rex, is a charismatic and enthusiastic man, who manages to transmit his passion for life to his children. He teaches them physics, geology, tells them stories. But Rex is an alcoholic, and when he is drunk he becomes a destructive and untrustworthy person.
The mother is a free spirit, a painter very proud of her art who hates the idea of ​​a conventional life and is unwilling to take on the responsibility of raising her four children. The Walls family is a wandering family. They live here and there and survive as best they can. The children learn to take care of themselves, protect each other, and finally manage to escape the infernal circle that the family becomes to go to New York.
On the way there are nights where they sleep in the open air in the desert, villages where they go to school for a week, neighbors who help them and abuses of all kinds. A transformative story about madness, poverty and love. One of those books after reading which one cannot remain the same, but leaves forever changed.
Caballos salvajes
Everything is starting. Once Walls released everything he had inside regarding his particular family experiences, it was also time to detail characterizations and portraits capable of covering an entire book.
A heroine and pioneer in the American Wild West, Lily Casey Smith lived for almost ten years in a hut in the Texas desert. Despite the extreme poverty in which she subsisted with her parents, she soon became a young teacher in a town located 28 days away on horseback, which would be the beginning of a succession of challenges in a land of promise and at the same time great adversities.
After marrying a bigamous man, she leaves him to go with another man who owns a ranch with whom she has two children - one of them is Rose Mary Walls, the mother of The crystal castle-, and during all this time she will become a rodeo rider, a horse trainer, a ruthless poker player and will do the impossible so that she and her family survive, with her desire to improve herself and her fiery defense of the freedom of women. early XNUMXth century. Jeannette Walls wanted to write about her mother's childhood, but her grandmother's life ended up taking over. In the end, everything has an explanation ...
The silver star
Perhaps it is a characterization of the girl who was barely able to live her childhood replicated within this plot. Circumstances rule, they change us, they sometimes advance maturity... But it is always time to revisit the child we were to answer her questions even if it is through a novel.
Decade of the seventies in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz fifteen when their mother abandons them "to find herself" and succeed in music. Although he leaves them money to survive for a month or two, the little girls are afraid of ending up being picked up by social services and decide to take a bus to Virginia, where their uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that has been his family's home for generations. .
But the small town they were born in has changed a lot since they left. And life is very different. Faced with a shortage of money, the two sisters will have to start doing small jobs for Jerry Maddox, the powerful foreman of the cotton factory.
The girls will have to adapt to start over as they discover the hidden story of who their father is and why their mother had to leave Virginia. Jeannette Walls moves once again with a novel about family, friendship and the triumph of justice in the face of adversity. And about people who find a way to love others and the world despite all their flaws.
