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White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. In the fashion of a picaresque novel , it deals with themes of motherhood, telling the story of a girl named Astrid who is separated from her mother, Ingrid, and placed in a series of foster homes .
White Oleander was released on VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video on March 11, 2003 and includes special features such as the theatrical trailer, interviews with the cast and creators, behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes, an audio commentary with Peter Kosminsky, John Wells and Janet Fitch, and Cast and Crew film highlights.
Janet Fitch (born November 9, 1955) [1] is an American author. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002.She is a graduate of Reed College. [2]Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers.
Lawhon, who lives in Tennessee, has written several historical fiction books based on real people and this time her story focuses on Martha Ballard — a midwife in Maine during the late 1700s.
Svetlana Efremova (born 1970; [1] also known as Svetlana Efremova–Reed) [2] is a Soviet-born American stage, film, and television actress as well as an educator. She starred in the American film White Oleander (2002).
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The early settlers along the Holston and Watauga Rivers in modern East Tennessee find themselves outside the jurisdiction of North Carolina and Virginia, and, in 1772, form a government of their own, the Watauga Association, described by such historians as Theodore Roosevelt as the first free and independent government (at least by men of European descent) on the American continent.