5. Explain the meaning of the book's title

[Jen]

5. Explain the meaning of the book's title

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Jeanette's mother throughout most of the book believes that oranges are the only fruit, that they are good and that they are what Jeanette should eat, towards the end she has discovered black missionaries and the idea of pineapples.

It can also be interpreted that heterosexual relationships are not the only relationships.

[Lynn]

Book nailed what I would write.

[Patrick]

Indeed

[Kristel]

I think Book nailed it. There is not one way, one fruit, there are different ways of being.

[Pip]

It was a motif that was often repeated through the book. Winterson explained in her introduction that she thought it was something that Nell Gwynn might have said. She was imagining this from the famous painting of Gwynn as an orange seller apropos of explaining that an author should be imagining their own reality.

[Paula]

Yes, I agree. Book nailed it :)