Note: This interview appeared in the September 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.
Start reading Oprah's interview with Janet Fitch The thrust of both Fitch’s impressive novel and the artful Peter Kosminsky film that’s been carefully made from it is the complex and difficult route Astrid must take to become her own person, to. Paint It Black, set in 1980 in punk-rock Los Angeles, comes out this month. So last summer, when I heard someone in my office say, "I was reading the advance copy of Janet Fitch's new novel.," I practically leaped on the phone to request my own copy from the publisher. White Oleander study guide contains a biography of Janet Fitch, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters. Page after page, I fell in love with a story that deeply moved me, and vivid passages that described the sky as the color of peaches and compared sorrow to the taste of a copper penny. The White Oleander Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list. I first talked with Janet Fitch in 1999, the year I chose her debut novel, White Oleander, for my book club. On the flip side, there was just too much stream of consciousness (a narrative device I hate so much I had to say so in my bio when I joined Goodreads in 2015) in between the good stuff which is why I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would despite the really strong start.Years ago, Janet Fitch's gorgeous White Oleander knocked Oprah's socks off, and when her long-awaited second novel, Paint It Black, came out, the writer talked about the nuts, bolts, and bolts of lightning of writing and how "in our imaginations, we can be anyone." Those two aspects of the novel are why I liked White Oleander more than most Oprah’s Book Club novels I’ve read. The foster homes, and how Astrid was treated in each of them, made me angry, sad and appalled. The series of foster homes Astrid lived in after her mother was imprisoned for murder, each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned, made for even more compelling reading.
It is a coming-of-age story about a child who is separated from her mother and placed in a.
Going into this I was prepared for mediocrity at best, but the book started off really strong with the undoing of Ingrid by her relationship with Barry, which made for some compelling reading. White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. I now purposefully avoid buying books with her stamp of approval on the cover as I tediously work my way through my existing stash. I have bought too many books after being lured in by “Oprah’s Book Club” on the cover, only for them to be mediocre at best or boring AF at worst. I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would, but I also liked it more than I thought I would.Īfter a series of misses I no longer approach novels from Oprah’s Book Club with any sort of anticipation.
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