The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

This book is just fascinating. It's a memoir about growing up with, um, unconventional parents who sometimes veer to the abusive, but seem to genuinely love their children. Walls seems to write in the mindset of whatever age she was at the time she's chronicling, which is just wonderful. Somehow, she manages not to impose too much of herself now on the descriptions of earlier parts of her life, leaving us to draw the conclusions. As she (the character) becomes more aware, so does her writing. A really interesting book. It's not often I zip through non-fiction as fast as I do through fiction.