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Glass Castle filled with mistakes and fabrications
I began to doubt the truth of this memoir when she referred to Fish Creek Canyon, Arizona, as being West of Bullhead City. The only state West of Bullhead City is Nevada and Fish Creek Canyon is far to the East in the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix Arizona. Sloppy work. Where is the publisher's fact-checker? If one writes about place and from place they need to know what they are talking about. I also found her descriptions of the desert generic. The Sonoran is not the northern basin-range.
I'm shocked and appalled that Wells has a new book out. I'm even more shocked that no publisher or literary critic has followed up on readers' charges that The Glass Castle is not a memoir. It is fiction.
October 2018 · Books · verified purchase