White Oleander: A Novel Cover:Paperback New York Times best-selling author

New York Times best-selling author of Sadie and The Project

This inspirational book encapsulates African American history and invites conversations at all levels

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White Oleander: A Novel Cover:Paperback New York Times best-selling authorThe 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