White Oleander HARPERFEST The secret is to find

The secret is to find "leverage points" places where a little bit of effort can yield a disproportionate return

grim humor

and a female police detective

opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century

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

White Oleander HARPERFEST The secret is to findThe 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