I am currently reading a fictional novel titled White Oleander by Janet Fitch. It's about a 15-year old girl name Astrid who lives and travels with her single mother name Ingrid. I contains 390 pages and 32 chapters.
Ingrid is a beautiful, free-spirit poet that manipulates men with her beauty and charm. After she ends up gaining feelings for them, they disappear or breaks her heart. After coping for a week or two she packs up her and Astrid's belongings, quits her job, and moves to a new city to start all over again. But after this one guy whom Ingrid is really in love with leaves her heartbroken,Ingrid murders him and is sentenced to life in prison.
Astrid admires and adores her mother and finds her inspirational of how well and eloquently her mother speaks poetically. When her mother dates man after man Astrid doesn't turn her away, or think of her negatively. She accepts her mother for whom she is. As Ingrid is in prison,she travels from foster home after foster home searching for the right place to live and the right family. Throughout her life she faces many challenges such as starvation, religion, forbidden love, near-death experiences,and drugs.Without her mother, she has to learn hot to survive in life and not follow in her mother's footsteps.
I think White Oleander is a wonderful book and everyone should read it. Each chapter is full of suspense and excitement and makes you wanting more.
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This is one of my favorite books, ever.
There is also a movie out... though I have never seen it. Whenever I see white flowers now, I think of poison and death... how sad
This sounds like such an interesting book. I admit, when I first heard about the book I thought it would just be another piece of literature, but I was proved wrong and it just reinforced the fact that it's not wise to judge a book by its cover. That being said, I think I'd like to read this book sometime in the near future.
this book sounds very interesting. it seems like the main charcter has her ups and downs just like people do in real life. it sounds like a book people can relate to. i think i mite have to consider this book. it sounds intense with this crazy mother, daugter relationship.
This book sounds like a book that I can't wait to get my hands on! For me, I am really picky when it comes to finding the right book to read, and this one sounds like it has a little bit of everything to spice up the story! This story sounds like you can really get into the character of Astrid because of everything it sounds like she sees and goes through. Especially losing your mother in such a way like that, it would really make me not be able to put the book down. I am excited to try and read it now! The best kind of stories are the kinds like these where you get into the character and read about their many conflicts and situations!
"White Oleander" refers to a beautiful but poisonous plant, but it could also be used to describe Ingrid. I think this might be my ssr book for the last quarter :}
This book sounds really good!
it seems like it would be very poetic but also exciting as well which is a good combination for a reader. just the fact that she killed a guy who broke her heart made me want to read this book weirdly enough haha.
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