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"A stunning debut novel... startlingly original.... The reader enters an imaginative world as deep as a forest..... Ingrid and Astrid are two of the freshest, most engrossing characters to appear in recent memory."
-John Perry, San Francisco Chronicle

"White oleander, a beautiful but poisonous plant, is a metaphor for motherhood in this impressive first novel.... Fitch's startlingly apt language relates a story that is both intelligent and gripping."
-Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, New York Times Book Review

"A truly gifted writer.... Astrid's journey is much, much more than the gripping, page-turning adventure of a young hero tripping through life. It is life."
-Warwick Downing, Denver Post

"Emotionally gripping... eerily seductive."
-Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe

Back Bay Books
Format:
TRADE PAPERBACK
Publish Date:
5/1/2000
Price:
$13.99
ISBN:
9780316284950
Pages:
480
Size:
5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
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