White Oleander by Janet FitchMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book was one I hesitated reading several years ago, when I was burned out on the Oprah's Book List genre of disturbing childhoods, abuse, distrustful authority figures and men, etc.
I will say that a few years space from that formula made me appreciate this book's lovely language and fluid, though verbose, passages describing Astrid's adolescence all the more.
Though disturbing in its reality, the main characters experience with her many foster families was not just a tragic coming of age story. Astrid is formed and empowered by her exposure to love in many forms, and it is ultimately the source of her strength and character.
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