The Language of Flowers

Vanessa Diffenbaugh 2011

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
foster care abandonment flowers healing

Our Take

Victoria emerged from the foster care system at eighteen and knows the Victorian meaning of every flower — a coded language she uses because the regular one has always failed her. Diffenbaugh writes attachment disorder from the inside: the inability to stay, the terror of staying, the reason behind both.

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