Status Updates From Il castello di vetro

One of the most striking bits so far is when the kids are in the back of a U Haul truck and the door swings open and the passerby doesn’t do anything aside from signal to the parents. Just one part where these kids were failed

Jeannette’s upbringing and events that happened in her childhood are so egregious that I forget that this is a memoir. It is not fictional and those occurrences are all real. The book makes me feel dejected sometimes, to the point I tear up a bit, but it gives me hope and motivation to see that she had enough willpower to keep moving after all that, and managed to write this memoir.