Janet Fitch Message Board 8/12/2005 10:51:36 PM
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White Oleander
The story is essentially the tale of Astrid, a young woman coming of age through a variety of foster homes, and Ingrid, her beautiful but distant mother.
Astrid and Ingrid float through life, adhering to Ingrid's somewhat arbitrary rules regarding relationships with men, until Ingrid breaks her own rules with a man she falls for. He, of course, lets her down and leaves her. She cannot come to terms with this and poisons him. She is sent away to priso...
