About the book
Janet Fitch's first novel centers on Astrid, raised by her mother Ingrid, a beautiful, headstrong poet around whom her world revolves. When Ingrid murders a former lover and goes to prison for life, the story follows Astrid's fight to survive and be loved, while exploring mothers, daughters and identity.
It appears on the complete list of Oprah's Book Club picks, and Oprah Winfrey said she fell in love with its story and its vivid imagery, such as a sky the color of peaches.
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Oprah Winfrey (CEO/Oprah Winfrey Network)
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.
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