Siel
Los Angeles
A story about this — 2 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Juxtaposing a girl’s coming-of-age story with biblical allusions and dreamlike new myths, Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit tells the semi-autobiographical story of a gal raised by Pentecostal evangelists who slowly discovers her own beliefs and lesbian desires—and gets kicked out of her church and home pretty fast.
Odd thing is, in the end, Jeanette comes back to town to visit her religion-crazed mother. Oranges is in large part a story of family, forgiveness, and redemption—these terms defined very differently, of course, from Jeanette’s original upbringing.
