Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

“A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it.”—Katherine May, author of Wintering Per person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there. What stories could I unravel from the orange's long ribboning peel? What new meanings could I find in its variousness, as it moves from east to west and from familiar to foreign? What begins as a curiosity into the origins of the oran