<P> Jeannette begins making plans to go to college in New York City, and realizes she can leave a year early and complete 12th grade there . Rose Mary is indifferent to her leaving, but Rex seems heartbroken and accompanies her to the bus station . After graduating from college in New York, Jeannette gets an internship at a newspaper . She encourages Brian to join her and Lori in New York, and he agrees . When her youngest sister Maureen is twelve, Lori asks her to move in with them as the house in Welch is on the verge of being condemned; Maureen readily agrees . A short while later, Jeannette gets a call from Rose Mary who tells her that she and Rex have moved to the city to be with their children . Though Lori and Brian try to help their parents, they must eventually ban them from their apartments . The parents become homeless and end up living in abandoned buildings . When Maureen enters her twenties, she moves back in with them . A fight eventually breaks out between Maureen and Rose Mary, and Maureen tries to stab Rose Mary . She is arrested and forced to spend a year in a mental institution . When she is released, she decides to move to California . </P> <P> A few years later, Rex calls Jeannette and tells her that he is dying . He dies a few weeks later . Years later, the family gathers on Thanksgiving where they toast Rex . </P> <P> In The New York Times Book Review, critic and novelist Francine Prose wrote, "What's best is the deceptive ease with which Walls makes us see just how she and her siblings were convinced that their turbulent life was a glorious adventure . In one especially lovely scene, Rex takes his daughter to look at the starry desert sky and persuades her that the bright planet Venus is his Christmas gift to her . Even as she describes how their circumstances degenerated, how her mother sank into depression and how hunger and cold--and Rex's increasing irresponsibility, dishonesty and abusiveness--made it harder to pretend, Walls is notably evenhanded and unjudging ...' The Glass Castle' falls short of being art, but it's a very good memoir . At one point, describing her early literary tastes, Walls mentions that' my favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships .' And she has succeeded in doing what most writers set out to do--to write the kind of book they themselves most want to read ." </P> <P> Paramount bought the film rights to The Glass Castle, and in March 2013 announced that actress Jennifer Lawrence would play Jeannette Walls in the movie adaptation . In August 2014, it was announced that Destin Daniel Cretton was set to direct . On October 9, 2015, it was reported that Lawrence withdrew from the film . Lionsgate acquired the film rights from Paramount and Brie Larson was set to play Jeannette Walls . Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson will play Rose Mary and Rex Walls, respectively, with Gil Netter producing . Filming began May 20, 2016 in Welch, West Virginia . </P>

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