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WHITE OLEANDER
Janet Fitch
Read by Alyssa Bresnahan
While her poet mother is serving a life sentence for murdering a boyfriend, gifted, sensitive, and angry Astrid Magnuson experiences every possible scenario in six years of foster care in Los Angeles where she observes, "everything drifting comes to rest." Narrator Alyssa Bresnahan has a young voice, yet her clipped, precise account keeps the reader utterly absorbed. Bresnahan boldly distinguishes among a diverse cast of characters. Thanks to Bresnahan's powerful recording, we surrender to the novel's intensity--willing this young woman's survival with all our hearts so that she can use, reshape and finally own the weighty baggage she brings to adulthood. J.H.L. © AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC/JAN 00]
Fiction • 16.25 hrs. • Unabridged • ©1999
Book pak • Recorded Books • 1999
CS ISBN 0788734717 $96.00 / $18.50(R) • Eleven cassettes
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