33m ago
inWhile our book club unanimously vilified the mother in 'The Glass Castle,' I found her neglect more heartbreaking than hateful
Yeah, the whole "fixing things" angle in that book got me. My neighbor, total Rose Mary type, had a porch step crumbling to dust for like two years. She'd just paint these little flowers on the cracked concrete instead of calling someone, said it gave it charm. We finally poured her a new step last fall, and she almost cried because she missed the "character" of the old broken one. Sometimes people just get married to the decay, you know?