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How wonderfully redemptive that a 10 year old orphaned girl was given the gift of flowers: the meanings given to them in the Victorian Age, their needs, their color…in essence, their language. With this language given to her by the only foster parent that ever truly cared for her, and through her own love of flowers, our heroine Victoria Jones emancipated from the foster care system at the age of 18, finds a way to communicate and function in her hostile environment. Feeling unworthy of love, as is the case for most non-adopted foster kids, Victoria struggles to find her place in this world. Once emancipated and left to fend for herself on the streets of San Francisco, she begins her new life sleeping in a park where she creates a garden. A local florist discovers her talent and Victoria slowly blossoms and grows into her life with its many twists and turns, ups and downs, self loathing and self affirmation.
Ms. Diffenbaugh has truly been able to get into the psyche of an abandoned child and express the loneliness, fear and self loathing that these kids experience,e yet at the same time celebrate those families that can bring something special into these kids lives. Great book on many levels. --Sina |
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