Sharron, OBOC committee member and Kitchener Public Library staffer, has been reading The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.
A product of the foster-care system, Victoria Jones’s past has taught her many lessons, most of them based on abuse, neglect, anger and mistrust. Growing up, she used the hidden meaning of flowers as a way to communicate. Emancipated out of the system, and forced either to support herself or live on the streets, she falls back on what she knows and trusts: the language of flowers. She starts to build a life through a job with a florist, but is then forced to confront her past and the one time she made a connection with another person.
Be sure to check out the publisher’s page for this book. It includes book excerpts, information for book clubs, video, ecards and a flower dictionary. You can also visit the author on Facebook.
