Foreign Fruit is a hybrid memoir that pulls apart mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity like the segments of a citrus fruit. Above, citrus on display at a shop in the UK.

“Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange,” a book by Chinese-Malaysian-Irish writer Katie Goh, is 200 pages of that cliché. The book, marketed as a “hybrid memoir,” braids ...

Foreign Fruit is a memoir that pulls apart mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity like the segments of a citrus fruit. Above, citrus on display at a shop in the UK.

“Foreign Fruit” also felt promising. It even had a lengthy subtitle. I eagerly peeled back the bright orange cover to the pithy pages, ready to completely re-envision the orange. “Foreign Fruit” has ...

Breaking the common belief that foreign fruit trees don’t thrive in coastal Karnataka due to soil and climate differences, Rao has proven otherwise with careful grafting techniques.

In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges are stacked in pyramids. They appear identical and in their seeming perfection, unremarkable, a mundane fruit to slice into wedges and pack in a ...

In Foreign Fruit, Goh turns oranges into a cipher, a way of writing about herself indirectly through a refracted lens that explodes the clean narratives she once reduced herself to.

In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges are stacked in pyramids. They appear identical and in their seeming perfection, unremarkable, a mundane fruit to slice into wedges and pack in a ...