![]() ![]() Walls survived a gypsy childhood, dragged from town to town by brilliant but unstable parents, including a mother who cared more about her art than her children. Yet Walls had the tenacity to finish school and pull her siblings out of poverty with her. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner, $16). I loved that Atticus Finch gave Scout the space to be the little hellion she was - not unlike how my father treated me. Lee's novel is filled with details and characters so familiar to me that, when I first read it, I felt like it was speaking to me in my own voice. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Grand Central, $8). Through Evans's brilliant photographs and Agee's evocative prose, you can practically feel and smell and see exactly how it was in those sharecropper shacks, right down to the kind of nails they put in the floorboards. ![]() A guidebook to America's Dust Bowl–era soul. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans (Mariner, $18). ![]()
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