New York: Scribner, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an account of growing up in a family with two eccentric and nomadic parents - "Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Despite the difficulty she suffered, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them - despite their overwhelming self-absorption - resonates from cover to cover." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-743247531.