7/5/2023 0 Comments White Oleander by Janet Fitch![]() ![]() “And I thought, this was what it was like to be beautiful. While she shoots, she is aware he is watching her. ![]() With every experience, she relates how she is feeling back to her mother. For example, “Uncle Ray,” the live-in boyfriend of her first foster mother, teaches her to shoot a gun. Each place she lands brings a bizarre cast of characters and an insane amount of trauma. Astrid’s six-year journey through the California foster system begins. Her 12-year-old daughter, Astrid, spends a week on a neighbor’s couch waiting for her mother to come back from being arrested before the police show up for her. After stalking him and breaking into his home, she murders him. ![]() In the novel, Ingrid Magnussen, a brilliant poet and unconventional woman, becomes obsessively vindictive when a lover rejects her. ![]()
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