There’s a story behind my decision to read Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, but now is not the time to tell it. Now is the time to say this: it must, must be the lovechild of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Nigel Slater’s Toast–the two books met on a shelf somewhere, had a torrid affair, and spawned a Winterson novel. (I do realize Slater wrote Toast quite a bit after Oranges, but it’s still a tempting thought).
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Six Degrees of Literary (and Cultural) Separation
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Moreover, the protagonist’s adoptive mother is a dead ringer for Mrs. Kim, the bible-thumping seventh-day-adventist Korean mom from The Gilmore Girls.
It may be a bit wrong to publicly betray one’s feelings about a book just halfway through, but I can’t resist. Every time I start a paragraph I have to remind myself what I’m reading.