White Oleander A Novel [Paperback]

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.Janet Fitch is the author of the novelsWhite 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, andThe 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.