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The Glass Castle Part II, Chapter 13

By Jeannette Walls

Part II, Chapter 13

Dad gets a job as an electrician.
Sometimes the family eats out at a place called the Owl Club, but most of the time they buy a huge sack of beans and eat it for the whole month. They could probably use all the natural gas generated by this diet to heat the house.
When not eating beans, the family sits around and reads. How cozy.