Author: Janet FitchPages: 480
Genre: Fiction
Personal Rating: 3/5
From the back cover:
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.
Take 200 pages from this book and it would have been great! As it was, it went on forever. How much horror can a teenager take? Apparently 480 pages of it. Don’t get me wrong, I found the story very interesting and Fitch is a great write. Overall I liked it. I’m just still hung up on those 480 pages.
I would go into a little detail about everything that happens to this girl and her "strange" mother but really you need to read it for yourself.
4 comments:
Is this an Oprah book? I can't quite read the round sticker on the cover.
Hi Jeane
Yep, it was an Oprah book.
Uhoh! I've got this one on my list to read for the What's in a Name challenge too!
I've just started this book, I hope I can resist through all the 480 pages then...
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