„Paint it Black“ 

Paint it Black , Janet Fitch's follow-up to the highly acclaimed White Oleander is a stark tale of a young woman's inadvertent search for answers after her boyfriend commits suicide. Josie Tyrell is a young, resolute woman who has "rescued" herself from her bleak, white trash circumstances through her own wit, innate beauty, and sense of self-preservation. While working as an artist's model, she meets and develops a very intense and all-consuming relationship with Michael Faraday, the only-child of wealthy parents and aristocratic breeding who drops out from Harvard when he finds solace in Josie. After meeting Josie, he rejects his privileged background, moves in with her, and appropriates the life of a struggling painter. His suicide early in the story ignites the novel and allows Fitch to deftly explore the lives Michael has impacted via flashback and careful prose.