White Oleander
Written by Janet Fitch
Reported by Oprah Winfrey
Abstract
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her path to redemption.
Astrid is the only daughter of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant and obsessed poet who uses her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid reveres her mother and cherishes their private world full of rituals and mysteries, but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother collapses because of a lover. Disturbed by the rejection, Ingrid murders the man and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each house is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to learn. With determination and humor, Astrid faces the challenges of loneliness and poverty and strives to learn who can become a motherless child in an indifferent world. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this captivating debut novel so much that she not only made it her book club selection, but asked if she could narrate the audio version.
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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 film, Paint It Black (Little, Brown 2006), also widely translated and made into a feature film and The Revolution of Marina M. (Little, Brown 2017) which takes place 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.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Purchase on Google Play Books https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAAD1bi9uyM
French language
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published on: September 18, 2006
ISBN: 9781594835711
Duration: 6h 22m
Genres: Fiction / Coming of age, Fiction / Family life / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Women
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