Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

This turned out to be not at all what I expected; somehow I had gotten the impression it would be a heavy-handed tract - instead it is the most sparkling, delightfully funny story of a young girl's coming of age, interspersed with all sorts of fantastical metaphorical fairytales she tells herself. While she mercilessly ridicules her family and the church she grew up in, none the less her underlying fondness for them both, in spite of herself, and in spite of their betrayal of her, shines through.