Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath Presents: East & Southeast Asian Heritage Festival ~ Katie Goh for 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_ The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked in supermarket displays, is not the same orange that grew from the first straggling orange grove that took root on the Tibetan plateau, part pomelo and part mandarin. 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 finds is a world of violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation - and of unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds. KATIE GOH is a writer and editor. Her award-nominated essays, journalism and criticism have appeared in publications including _Port_, the _Guardian_, _Gutter_, _Wasafiri_, _i-D_, _Dazed_ and _gal-dem_, and she is an editor for _Extra Teeth_ literary magazine. Her book of essays _The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters_ was a Reviewer's Choice for _The Big Issue_'s Independent Books of 2021 and shortlisted for the inaugural Kavya Prize in 2022. She grew up in the north of Ireland and lives in Edinburgh.