The story continues with the family still living in Welsh as they deal with the struggles of the rotting house. Rex‘s mother dies, much to the pleasure of the children but the family still has to visit Stanley and Rex‘s father as they have running water. Jeanette begs her mother to go on welfare but she refuses. Jeannette continues into high school where she eventually becomes the editor of her school newspaper.

Glass Castle is a memoir of Jeannette Walls as she grows up in a very unusual family. The book opens with Jeannette seeing her homeless mother in an alley in New York and later, having a conversation with her. We are then transported back into time where we are presented with a past memory of Jeanette at the age of three where she is badly burnt and ends up in the hospital, where her fathers sneaks her out one day to avoid the hospital fees.

Continuing on with Flavia‘s journey of solving the murder, she begins to try and connect the dots. The first thing on her agenda is to visit the library in Bishop‘s Lacey in an attempt to find some newspapers explaining the events of her father‘s past. While there, she learns that her father‘s headmaster mysteriously died in an incident due to the very stamp found on the snipe‘s beak. She also learns that the headmaster was the librarian‘s uncle.

The sweetness at the bottom of the pie follows Flavia, an 11-year girl with pigtails, braces, and an uttermost hatred for her two sisters. However, we soon find out that she is a brilliant chemist with a passion for everything poisonous. At the beginning of the novel, Flavia “stumbles” upon a most interesting problem; a dead redhead man in the garden. Flavia then begins to try and solve the murder, in which her father is the prime suspect.