Katie Goh’s “Foreign Fruit:” another microhistory-turned-memoir

Katie Goh’s “Foreign Fruit:” another microhistory-turned-memoir

Katie Goh’s “Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange” bills itself as a memoir constructed alongside an odyssey of the orange. This caught my attention. I had been searching for something to scratch this particular genre-clash itch. Something with a personal narrative that makes a small aspect of the world make more sense — maybe in an annoying philosophical way, but in a grounded one too. One that transforms my preconceptions of somethi…