Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Bit jumpy

well, I guess that this year my type of book is stories about religion, what's built around it - the communities, the rules, the secrets, the downfalls and the salvations -, and about how people are impacted by it. in the author's biography it says “Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out” - and I think it's always a bit like this in life, isn't it? It works and it doesn't.

After “Crossroads”, this one is probably my 2022's favourite book.

This was beautiful, insightful, and tragic. Jeanette's story of gaining a greater understanding of herself, and the sacrifices needed to gain that understanding, was very moving.

strangely heavy-handed. the flurry of fanaticism and abuse recounted is convincing but...that's about it.

A book that needs to be
read more than once.
The story is of an adopted
girl raised in a conservative
Christian home who becomes
an adult unable to adhere to
the morality with which she
was raised.