White Oleander -- Janet Fitch, Paperback

The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.
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.

Author: Janet Fitch
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780316284950

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32280 / White Oleander


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 05/26/2000 pg. 65
New York Times 05/14/2000 pg. 42

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 motion picture, Paint It Black (Little, Brown 2006), also widely translated and made into a feature film, and The 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.