141. Hard-Knock Life Memoirs
Jeannette Walls (Photo Matt Eich for New York Times)
Sometimes the most fraught journey is simply making it to adulthood. In this week’s mini, we talk about authors who survived unusual and/or traumatic childhoods and used their experiences to write engrossing, and often healing, works of art.
In this episode:
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
An Abbreviated Life by Ariel Leve