![]() Over 23,000 young people will age out of the foster care system in the United States each year. Unfortunately, Victoria represents real people. Then, driving her to her new transitional home, her caseworker lectures her on her likelihood of failure as an adult: “no high school diploma, no motivation, no support network, a complete lack of social skills.” ![]() As a “gift,” her fellow group home residents set fire to her bed. According to her paperwork, it is her 18 th birthday, but she doesn’t know her actual birthdate, just like she doesn’t know the names of either of her biological parents. It begins with the emancipation of Victoria Jones, a young woman who grew up as a child in the California foster care system. The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a work of fiction, not a book specifically about foster care, but it does illuminate some of the people affected by the foster care system. ![]()
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