Books by Jeanette Walls

This no-holds-barred memoir of dysfunctional family life spent more than 400 weeks on the New York Times’ bestsellers list when it was published in 2005. Unlike Westover’s devout Mormon family, Walls’ parents were bohemian and nomadic. But, like Educated, the book describes a turbulent and often physically dangerous childhood; nonconformist, charismatic parents; and an author whose conflicting feelings towards them gradually brings her to reject the lifestyle they have chosen for her.

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