Title: White oleander
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Foster children, Mothers and daughters, Women murderers, Young women, Children of prisoners, Psychology, Fantasy, Littérature américaine, Bildungsromans, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Young women, fiction, Large type books, Women murderers -- Fiction, New York Times reviewed
Places: United States, California, Los Angeles