If the world were fair, destruction and creation would take the same effort. It is far too easy to destroy something. A red strike through a sentence. A flame through a forest. A fist through a flower’s roots. What took life a hundred years to create could be felled in mere minutes.
— Katie Goh, Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange (Tin House Books, May 6, 2025)
Notes:
- NPR Book Review (May 5, 2025): “Supermarket displays of oranges will never look the same after reading ‘Foreign Fruit'”
- Chicago Review of Books (May 5, 2025): “Unpeeling the history of citrus”