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A review by marywahlmeierbracciano
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.0
In Foreign Fruit, Katie Goh reckons with her own queer, mixed-race identity amid anti-Asian hate and fetishization, finding kinship with the orange, itself a provocative hybrid. She tracks her own family’s migration from China to Malaysia to Ireland, where she grew up; simultaneously following the orange along a similar route as it appeared in art and life as a symbol of wealth and colonization. It is illuminating, infuriating, and important.
Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Child death, Gun violence, Rape, Slavery, Trafficking, and Cannibalism