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white oleander
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 .
the struggle to build an authentic identity lies at the heart of astrids life as a foster child in los angeles after her poet mother who has kept astrid isolated from the world is imprisoned for murder