Those felt a little bit preachy to me, and some of the more Biblical stuff went over my head. I really struggled with it, and the fairy tales and Bible stories didn’t work for me.

I definitely hard a hard time relating to Jeanette, and even though we see her over the span of several years, it was really easy to forget that it takes place over several years. It was a hard book to relate to, and I feel like there’s a lot that went over my head. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is definitely not the book for me.

The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry.

Where I Got It: I borrowed the paperback from the library Published August 1997 (originally published 1985) by Grove Press|176 pages

'Wreck City' – set in the same setting, although moved to a derelict trash city where those abandoned by the corporate-controlled society struggle to live.Book: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.

'Post-3War' – set in 'Tech City' after World War III, with Billie educating Spike, the Robo sapiens.

'Easter Island' – set in the 18th century, a time when Easter Island's inhabitants destroyed many of the moai statues (and the last tree) on their island.

'Planet Blue' – set in a futuristic past, where humanity's destruction of its own homeworld, Orbus, seems to be fixed when they come across and terraform another viable planet.

Īndrew Milner, a literary critic and author of Science Fiction and Climate Change, notes that this book is an early example of ' doomer' climate fiction. Ursula Le Guin, while criticizing exposition and sentimentality, thought the novel a worthwhile and cautionary tale. The novel aims mainly to warn against history's tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity's inability to learn from past mistakes. Particularly those of a Robo sapien AI named Spike and her reluctant human companion, Billie.

The novel is self-referential as characters make intertextual references, and cyclical as certain characters’ story arcs repeat. It is a post apocalyptic, postmodern, dystopic love story concerned with themes of corporate government control, the harshness of war, artificial intelligence and technology. The Stone Gods is a 2007 novel by Jeanette Winterson.

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