White oleander

By Fitch, Janet

Subjects: Young women, Foster children, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Women murderers -- Fiction, Littérature américaine, Fiction, general, Large type books, Children of prisoners, Fantasy, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Young women, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Women murderers, Psychology, Mothers and daughters

Description: 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.