Jeannette Walls became one of the bestselling memoirists of all time when The Glass Castle spent more than five years on the New York Times bestseller list. In this beautiful, heartbreaking novel, 12-year-old "Bean" Holladay and her older sister Liz are left to fend for themselves when their mother goes off to "find herself." But soon the authorities relocate the girls from California to their uncle's dilapidated mansion in Virginia, where Bean and Liz struggle to make sense of their all-too-tumultuous lives.