publication date: Saturday, March 14, 2020 (part of Spring 2020)

category: Literature

clue: People who live in glass houses should probably move somewhere more stable.

explanation: Walls grew up in a nomadic, sometimes homeless family. She eventually wrote the best-selling memoir The Glass Castle. more…

intended difficulty: very hard

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Chris Lemler


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