Winterson is a brilliant author, wonderful with language.

This is the story of a girl growing up in an evangelical family in the industrial Midlands (that's in England, folks). But she's gay. The conflict that creates between her and her family, and her struggle to be herself, form the basis of this fine book.

This is going out as a RABCK to someone on whose Wish List it is.

You really are too kind, mojosmom. Soon, there will be a flood of books entering my mailbox from other BookCrossers. A few are books I asked for, but most of them are just from users who have my address on permanent file, and want to make my life miserable by burdening me. I guess it could be worse. After all, I do like books.

I'm not reading anything else right now, though, so I'll start this one since it looks short.

Sad, mainly because this is a true story. Or, at least, I imagine it's a true story, since the main character in the book is named Jeanette. I think that is a dead give-away.

A young girl growing up in a highly religious home is doted on by her mother. Loving as well as sheltering, the dynamics between mother and daughter leave you both touched and disgusted. Unable to explore her own desires, poor Jeanette is treated terribly because of a relationship she has with another young member of the community. This lover is a girl. Undergoing such nasty treatment, our only solice as the reader is in the fantasy stories that are dotted through the book, the work of a childlike imagination. This is book is melancholy, but I was left with something very postitive. After all, Jeanette became a very populat writer, but that part of the story is not documented in this book.

The post office was busy today, since they were closed yesterday for Veteran's Day, but I managed to mail this off. I did, after all, promise it to gaysocial worker a long time ago. It is going out to fulfill a project based on Pay It Forward. BookCrosser daidy mailed me a book (to be exact, this book), and little message that I could continue to spread the chain giving three BookCrossers books that were on their Wish Lists. I have chosen gaysocialworker as my second BookCrosser, and I am sending him Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

Received today, and looking forward to read it. If it's anywhere near as good as Winterson's Written on the Body or Sexing the Cherry, I'll be in for a real treat. Thanks for the send.