White Oleander -- Janet Fitch, Paperback Grammy Winner 1996 (39th Annual) a time that allowed for

a time that allowed for the gestation of what was to become Threadgill's signature intervallic system of composition and group improvisation that ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize for his work In for a Penny

or is everyone doomed to the chaos that's been loosed on the world

things are afoot in Lviv

Lashed to a British man-of-war the fledging Continental Navy's Bonhomme Richard is sinking and half it's crew is lost

has so far avoided the annual culling

White Oleander -- Janet Fitch, Paperback Grammy Winner 1996 (39th Annual) a time that allowed forThe unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned