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![]() Although just an hour from her previous foster homes in San Francisco, it was a world apart in every other respect. The truth is, she has been on her own since birth, with one exception.Īt 9, Victoria was placed with a woman named Elizabeth, on a picturesque Napa vineyard. Abandoned as an infant, the girl has been bounced between bad foster and worse group homes, kicked out of schools, and branded as "detached, quick-tempered and unrepentant," by the cold social worker assigned to her case. ![]() She's on her own, with perilously limited resources and no support. At the start, 18-year-old Victoria is about to "emancipate." Technically an adult, she has placed out of the foster care system. "The Language of Flowers," the debut novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, is an unexpectedly beautiful book about an ugly subject: children who grow up without families, and what becomes of them in the absence of unconditional love. ![]()
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