Foreign Fruit

A Personal History of the Orange
A prize-winning and haunting hybrid memoir that uses the journey and cultivation of a single fruit - the orange - to reckon with the author's own mixed heritage and Asian identity

WINNER OF SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR DEBUT NON-FICTION
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026
A DEBUTIFUL BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A bold new voice' IRISH TIMES
'Visceral . I could feel every word' ANGELA HUI
'Thoughtful, poetic and clear-sighted' CECILE PIN

The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering. It is a fruit containing metaphors, dreams, mythologies, superstitions, parables and histories within its tough rind. So, what happens when the fruit is peeled and each segment - each moment of history, each meaning in time - is pulled apart?

In this distinct, subversive and intimate hybrid memoir, Katie Goh explores the orange as a means of understanding the world, and herself within it. What she reveals is violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation - and unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds.

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