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Janet Fitch is the author of White Oleander. Her official website is http://www.literati.net/Fitch/index.htm.
White Oleander
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery --- but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover.
Janet Fitch's Summer Reading List
Rapture
by Susan Minot
Evening was so beautiful, I have been making everyone buy it. Minot's internal landscapes are unbelievably good. What a graceful, subtle, intelligent writer. I was a little put off when the reviews said the sex act itself was not very exciting, but I guess you can't have everything.
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
by Isaac Babel
A character in my book is a Russian exile, a writer who leaves in 1922, and another character is from Odessa, where Babel is from, and Babel is one of the great writers of the Revolutionary period. He is astounding.
Book of My Nights
by Li-Young Lee
One of my very favorite books is a memoir by this amazing Chicago-based poet --- The Winged Seed, another book I make all my friends read. This is his latest book of poetry, so tender, lyrical. I love him.
Birthday Letters
by Ted Hughes
Hughes is such an interesting case. He's generally painted as the man who drove Sylvia Plath to suicide. Now we get his side of the story, as only a great poet can do it. The thing is he was the better known poet at the time of her death, but she then completely eclipsed him, and now we think of Hughes as Sylvia Plath's husband. But he is, nevertheless, the real thing, and I can't wait to read this one, poems that deal directly with Plath. I've had it on my shelf for a year or two.
I the Divine
by Rabih Alameddine
This looked so cool, I picked it up in a bookstore and just started leafing through it. The form, starting the novel over and over in a way that tells the whole story, just seemed impossible to resist.
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