The loquat is a large evergreen shrub that bears dozens of bulb-like orange fruit in the late spring and early summer.

But for the Irish writer and critic Katie Goh, the messiness of the orange is exactly the point. As her superbly reflective, ...

inheritance and identity like the segments of a citrus fruit. Like the orange, Goh is multiple: She is a queer person of Chinese, Malaysian and Irish heritage who was raised in Northern Ireland.

It is this unrepentant multiplicity that spurred Goh to look deeper at the orange in Foreign Fruit, an elegant hybrid memoir about hybridity that pulls apart mythologies of colonialism, inheritance ...