angelayoung 's review for:

Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

4.0

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This is a strange and wonderful book. The only way to describe it is to quote from it:

In the Crown of Thorns that night Tradescant made plans to take ship and leave us. I saw the look on Jordans's face and my heart became a captive in a locked room. I couldn't reach him now. I knew he would go.

I went outside and walked until the lights of the inn were specks in the distance and I was alone with the river flowing out to sea.

and

I've kept the log book for the ship. Meticulously. And I've kept a book of my own, and for every journey we have made together I've written down my own journey and drawn my own map. I can't show this to the others, but I believe it to be a faithful account of what happened, at least, of what happened to me.
and

The philosopher of the village warned me that love is better ignored than explored, for it is easier to track a barnacle goose than to follow the trajectories of the heart.

and

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

and, from the publisher's description:

This is a story which ebulliently rejects any single reading of history or life and revels in the multiplicity of truth and time.