![]() ![]() All of this happens over a period of just a few years, incredibly. At one point, Marina is imprisoned by a sadist, sexually enslaved and tortured. She joins a cult living in her family’s country estate. She disguises herself as a boy at another. takes us deep inside the Russian Revolution and lets us witness it through a pair of remarkable eyes. Marina lives with a group of elderly astronomers at one point. Janet Fitchs first novel, White Oleander, a 1 bestseller and Oprahs Book Club selection, has been translated into twenty-eight languages and was made into a feature film. Fitch seems to become restless as a writer, moving Marina from one terrible and bizarre situation to another. Fitch plunges Marina into the full consequences of the revolution, as she and her family lose everything and are driven to selling their family heirlooms on the black market in order to eat.īut as the revolution’s idealism rots, the novel begins to stray into stranger and stranger territory. She doesn’t seem to realize, until it is too late, that a successful revolution would be devastating to her and her family. ![]() She is lovestruck and idealistic and passionate and extraordinarily naive. Marina’s teenage rebellion dovetails nicely with the revolutionary events swirling around her. These details help the story come alive, and the novel starts strong. ![]()
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