Jeanette Winterson

This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."

Why be Happy when You Could be Normal?

Uyirmei

She hated being a nobody, and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents we don't really have any choice.

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