Half Broke Horses, By Jeannette Walls
Independent - Thu Dec 3, 7:27 pm ETIn her bestselling 2005 memoir The Glass Castle, American journalist Jeannette Walls recalled a childhood that gave dysfunction a new name. As she was raised by an alcoholic father and an eccentric mother, there were times when Wall and her siblings slept in cardboard boxes and subsisted on margarine and cat-food. How such untamed characters slipped under society's net is partially explored by ...