Orange isn t the only fruit book5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her discussions of hell and redemption seem to have been off-putting to other students and teachers. Jeanette was an outsider, too, and writes of her school days with some humor. Her mother was a leader in their church, spoke with conviction and authority, and was respected by the members of their circle even if she didn’t have many friends to speak of. Novel Jeanette seems not to have had a problem with this. Both Jeanettes were adopted, and it seems that both Jeanettes’ mothers wished to groom their daughters to become missionaries. The main character, also named Jeanette, tells her story in retrospect and focuses on her adolescent and early teen years, which seem to have occurred in the early 1970s. In this case, the author struggles to reconcile religion, family and sexual preference. As with my previous review, The Golden Notebook, an underlying theme is alienation, a breaking up of the whole person and an attempt at putting it all back together again. ![]() Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical novel about her upbringing by an evangelical Christian mother in England and her coming out as a lesbian. ![]()
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