Although Jeanette happens to feel greatly connected to her church and her church’s teachings, this fidelity towards the supposed perfection of the church becomes challenged as she realizes that she is sexually and romantically drawn towards women. There were friends and there were enemies” (3). As Jeanette, the narrator, mentions early on in the novel, her mother “had never heard of mixed feelings. Jeanette’s mother believes in literal translations of the Bible, and she freely uses religious rhetoric to accommodate her black and white fashion of viewing the world. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (henceforth OANOF) is a 1985 Bildungsroman(novel of development) centered on the life of Jeanette, a girl who is adopted and raised by a woman who happens to be a fundamentalist Christian. Front cover of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
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