Jeannette Walls, Tattered Cover, Highlands Ranch Tuesday, October 20 | Details [2] | Read more [3] | Watch [4] Jeannette Walls tugged at our hearts with The Glass Castle, a gritty memoir about a life defined by eccentricity and periods of homelessness---a revelation about an existence she once labored to keep hidden. What other secrets are buried in her family tree? Find out when Walls reads from Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, a first-person account of her grandmother's life.