![]() ![]() ![]() I loved “Oranges” for its simplicity and honesty. Maybe the book was about making sweet from tart after all. Until choosing to live with her ‘demon’ – and suddenly its canned pineapple in every dish from ham roasts to pineapple slices. I loved how through the book it was always oranges. ![]() I loved the orange demon – not evil, but there to help you know what you want. The peeling of the skin to get to the fruit, then the sharing of its meat, which you do by hand, not by knife. ![]() And while it isn’t about marmalade, there is beautiful repetitive imagery and symbolism of the orange. Winterson writes in her forward, that due to both title, and bias of at the time, the book was found at bookstores in the cooking section, specifically under – jam making. It is Jeanette, who puts the question: whose demon do we feed – our own or that of others? The over-zealous characters are at once funny and lamentable. And while she is happy serving her religious calling, Jeanette comes to an impasse when her priest, mother, and congregation make her choose between God and the woman she loves. The ‘Jeanette’ in the novel was adopted so that her mother can fulfil her destiny as the second Virgin Mary. ![]()
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