Try Mary Karr – she writes memoirs about her dysfunctional family and rough childhood in Texas. The Liars’ Club is probably her best known one. Also check out Tara Westover’s Educated if you haven’t already read it. Both have that raw, honest storytelling style like Walls does.
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I always recommend *Running With Scissors* for fans of *The Glass Castle* — it’s the same subgenre of “fucked up childhood but I’m a child so I don’t really realize how fucked up it is” memoir. Stylistically & voice-wise it is a bit different, more dark humor than Walls, but otherwise very similar in content.
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Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
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Try Mary Karr – she writes memoirs about her dysfunctional family and rough childhood in Texas. The Liars’ Club is probably her best known one. Also check out Tara Westover’s Educated if you haven’t already read it. Both have that raw, honest storytelling style like Walls does.
I always recommend *Running With Scissors* for fans of *The Glass Castle* — it’s the same subgenre of “fucked up childhood but I’m a child so I don’t really realize how fucked up it is” memoir. Stylistically & voice-wise it is a bit different, more dark humor than Walls, but otherwise very similar in content.
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
Educated by Tara Westover
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy