White Oleander HARPERFEST student at the city's legendary

student at the city's legendary academy

revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor's visit

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award

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White Oleander HARPERFEST student at the city's legendaryThe unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. 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