![]() Read what you don’t know is better advice. Write what you know is reasonable advice. The trick is to turn your life into something that has meaning for people whose experience is nothing like your own. Oranges is autobiographical in so much as I used my own life as the base of the story. ![]() The story in the novel is based on the author’s biography actually the main character’s name is Jeanette. Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by a Pentecostal family who raised her to become a missionary. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit/ Portocalele nu sunt singurele fructe is a story about options and choices, a bildungsroman on a teenager’s becoming. I was thinking about the title of this review when I realized that the essential description of the book is its own title. ![]() ![]() Published September 4th 2014 by Vintage (first published 1985), 224p Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ![]()
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