![]() ![]() Jeanette eventually pretends to repent simply out of a desperate need for food. This whole process takes several days and the author does not shy away from it, probably because she experienced something close to, if not that exactly as it was. ![]() Jeanette refuses and is locked in her parlor by her mother. Melanie, who has always been the more subservient and less confident of the two, repents. Jeanette and Melanie are forced to undergo exorcisms at the church. ![]() This change is traumatizing enough for Jeanette without what happens next. Up until this moment, Jeanette has been everything her mother wanted her to be, and her mother in turn as loved and supported everything she did (because everything she did was what her mother told her to do). Their relationship makes Jeanette so happy she tell hers mother about it, but only finds her mother angry and upset. That is, until she falls in love with another girl, Melanie. ![]() She’s admired for being a good Christian girl and absolutely faithful to her community. Jeanette is devoted to her religion and the Christian path her mother has determined for her. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a semi-autobiographical story based around the author’s life raised by an evangelists in an English Pentecostal community while discovering her attraction to women. The relationship between sapphic women and Christianity is a complicated and sometimes tragic and violent one. Trigger warnings for mentions of homophobia and abuse ![]()
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