Following the huge success of White Oleander, where Janet Fitch portrayed the coming-of-age of Astrid, a young girl placed in foster care after her mother murders a former lover and goes to prison for life, she has once again created an indelible portrait of a young woman in Paint it Black. Josie Tyrell is a teenage runaway, an artist's model, and an habitu+¬ of the '80s LA punk rock scene.She is a white trash escapee from Bakersfield, having left a going nowhere life there.Now, sex, drugs and rock n' roll inform her days and nights.Paint it Black is the perfect title choice because Josie's lover is never coming back, as the song says.Josie meets Michael Faraday, son of concert pianist Meredith Loewy and writer Calvin Faraday, long divorced.
