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A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it.--Katherine May, author of Wintering I don't know anyone who wouldn't love this book. Airy and rooted, its style as beautiful as its investigations, this is the kind of book that holds in it the unexplored ecosophical inquiries of our time.--Sumana Roy, author of Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries Foreign Fruit is an encounter not only with the orange, but with the reality of diasporic life in hostile environments. Goh patiently and skilfully reinvents the orange as a means of inventing her identity, finding ways to grow and claim a story beyond which she'd first thought was hers to take. And what we're given is a story more surprising, potent, and various than we could ever have imagined.--Amy Key, author of Isn't Forever and Arrangements in Blue Foreign Fruit offers one of the strongest openings of a non-fiction book I've read in a long time, refusing history to stay at a distance and the trade wealth is built on to remain elusive, subverting the popular genre of the 'history of things' in elegant ways. Katie Goh writes with as admirable a preciseness about self-othering as she does about botanical history. What's more, she injects her memoir writing with an essential critique and awareness of what it means to turn your own pain into a commodity as a person of colour in a white-dominated media landscape, and as a writer of mixed belongings in a market that seeks to routinely label.--Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, author of The Nerves and Their Endings and How We Are Translated Beautiful, visceral and powerful writing that speaks from the heart and to the heart. I could feel every word: the frustration, the confusion and the joy. Foreign Fruit is a raw and fascinating book that delves into the important meaning of fruit that we take for granted every day, as well as the history of fruit in Asian cultures. I absolutely adored it.--Angela Hui, author of Takeaway

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Katie Goh is a writer, editor and author from the north of Ireland, currently living in Edinburgh.

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