JANET FITCH
American novelist (1955 - )
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The Santa Anas blew hot from the desert, shriveling the last of
the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders
thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green
leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and
I. I woke up at midnight to find her bed empty. I climbed to
the roof and easily spotted her blond hair like a white flame in
the light of the three-quarter moon.
- White Oleander (ch. 1)
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