Jeannette Walls wrote one of the best memoirs I ever read called The Glass Castle. It sold over 5 million copies and spent nearly 500 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Walls grew up with unconventional parents. Her father Rex was an alcoholic who dreamed of inventing a gold-detecting gizmo that would make him rich enough to build a glass castle for his family to live in. They moved around a lot, usually before the rent came due. Then her parents left Jeannette and her siblings with their paternal grandparents where they were locked in a basement and often ate cat food or whatever they could scrounge from garbage cans. Now Walls is a novelist. Her latest book is called Hang the Moon. It’s a rollicking tale about a gutsy young woman who becomes a bootlegger during Prohibition. We talk about what it’s like to grow up poor and how your life changes when you become very, very rich.