Description
The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.
Author: Janet Fitch
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780316284950
ISBN10: 0316284955
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Family Life | General
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.
Author: Janet Fitch
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780316284950
ISBN10: 0316284955
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Family Life | General
About the Author
Janet Fitch is the author of the novels White Oleander (Little Brown, 1999), an Oprah Book club selection translated into 24 languages and made into a feature motion picture, Paint It Black (Little, Brown 2006), also widely translated and made into a feature film, and The Revolution of Marina M. (Little, Brown 2017) set during the years of the Russian Revolution. A fourth novel completing Marina's story, Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, will be published by Little, Brown in summer 2019. Fitch lives in her hometown of Los Angeles with her writer husband Andrew Nicholls.