Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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[[Oranges Are Not the Only Frui] is Jeanette Winterson's somewhat autobiographical [[Coming of Ag] novel about a young adopted girl discovering she's a lesbian in a fanatically Christian community. It was later adapted as a [[Miniserie] by the [[BB].


 * [[Adaptation Name Chang]: Jeanette is renamed Jessica in the TV adaptation, possibly to reduce the autobiographical elements of the story.
 * [[Adults Are Useles]: The only adult who even tries to help the protagonist is  who
 * [[Allegory Adventur]: The fairy tales that pepper the text usually mirror Jeanette's life in some fashion.
 * [[Arc Word]:
 * [[Author Avata]: Quite obviously Jeanette.
 * [[Biblical Motif]: Tons of them, including: casting the first stone, the walls of Jericho, Lot's wife, "to the pure all things are pure" (Titus 1.15), the number seven, and the names of the chapters.
 * [[Butch Lesbia]: Kinda. Jeanette says she sees no similarity between herself and men -- except that she always wears trousers. In the miniseries this is averted: she almost never wears trousers and yet is attracted to the femme Melanie.
 * [[Coming Out Stor]
 * [[Cool Old Lad]: Elsie
 * Double Standard Rape (Female on Female): Implied with the interactions between.
 * [[Girls Lov]: With Melanie and later Katy.
 * Holier Than Thou: Melanie's  has this attitude. So does Jeanette's mother and most of the congregation members.
 * [[Jane Eyr]: It's Jeanette's mother's favorite book. Later we find out that
 * [[Lipstick Lesbia]: In the miniseries.
 * Mentor Occupational Hazard:
 * Motif: The eponymous oranges. Also the rough brown pebble.
 * [[Nightmare Fetishis]: Jeanette was like this as a child.
 * No Sex Allowed: This seems to be the rule in Jeanette's community. Her parents adopted her to avoid having sex.
 * [[Only Sane Ma]: Jeanette for most of the story.
 * [[Religion Is Wron]: Or at least fundamentalism is.
 * [[Spiteful Spi]
 * Title Drop: Towards the end, when Jeanette's mother winds up with a ton of pineapple and everybody at the church eats lots of pineapple dishes for a while.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Though all the other lesbians in the miniseries are [[Lipstick Lesbian|LipstickLesbian], the two who run the sweet shop are a butch/femme couple.
 * [[The Fundamentalis]: Jeanette's mother.
 * [[Theme Namin]: The chapters are named for the first eight books of the Christian [[The Bible|Bibl].

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