Vanessa Diffenbaugh drew on her own experiences of caring for foster children when writing her début novel The Language of Flowers (Macmillan, August). "I felt, at least in the United States, it's ...

"The Language of Flowers," the debut novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, is an unexpectedly beautiful book about an ugly subject: children who grow up without families, and what becomes of them in the ...

Never underestimate the power of childcare swaps and rewrites. That's what debut author Vanessa Diffenbaugh attributes to the success of her book, "The Language of Flowers." With two foster teenagers ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University about the wild weather in California this year. We have a long-range weather forecast for California. Weeks of storms ...