The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
336 pp.
Book Review by Molly Lundquist
January 2012
We first meet Victoria Jones as she wakes up on her 18th birthday to find a row of matches at the bottom of her bed set ablaze. If we're thinking something's not normal, we'd be right.
Nothing has been normal in Victoria's life: an abandoned newborn passed from foster parent to foster parent, she finally landed in a home for emotionally troubled girls. The world has been a hostile place, and on this day Victoria is to be released into its unwelcoming arms. Today she's 18 and on her own.