![]() This question comes up again and again as the conflict between Jeanette and her willful (and often abusive) mother escalates. I found myself always enjoyed these simple statements a lot throughout the book. At the heart of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit lies the question of what constitutes a transgression against someone you love, and what it means to forgive someone who has transgressed against you. ![]() For this I like the quote "My mother had painted the white roses red and now she claimed they grew that way". I especially enjoyed (view spoiler) Īnd I liked how she was able to show how people wanted things to be their way despite the fact was in the opposite direction. The whole went to school and not fitted in thing was like a prelude for she discovered her sexual orientation. But once I got to the part she went to school, and had to deal with all the school teachers, things picked up for me. It is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian girl who grows up in an English Pentecostal community. In the beginning of the book, when the characters discussed things from the Bible, I had hard time to figure things out (as I am not familiar with Bible at all). Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985 by Pandora Press. ![]() ![]() But I often got lost during the stories from her imaginations in between. I finished the book today, and enjoyed it.Īs a autobiographic fiction, I felt so sad when reading it, heart broke by the fact that denied by her own community, no body to rely on, and even betrayed by friends. ![]()
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