I had heard previously how good/bad this book is. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tendernessįrom one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Measure of control over their relationship. Strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner There were so many missing pieces."įitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and Mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existentialĪnxieties. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leavingĪstrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los AngelesĪs Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons Telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages whoįought fiercely to survive. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, Novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first
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