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Reader reviewed by Nicki

White Oleander is about a young girl named Astrid. It's about her different experiences going from foster home to foster home after her mother was sent to prison for murdering her boyfriend.

In one of the foster homes Astrid was shot in the hip by her foster mother who suspected her of having an affair with her boyfriend. In another foster home, her foster mother kicks her out after she found out that she befriended a black, posh prostitute that lived down the street. In another of her foster homes, Astrid got really attached to her foster mother. It was the best home she lived in. After her foster mother got to talk to her mother and her mother convinced her that her husband must be cheating since he's gone on business all the time, she killed herself.

After that Astrid is sent to a facility for foster children where girls there beat her up because their boyfriends were looking at her. After that she is sent to live with another foster mother who has them help her make cheap things to sale at flea markets.

After she turned 18, Astrid moved to Russia with her boyfriend who she met in the facility for foster children.