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orangejenny 's review for:
Sexing the Cherry
by Jeanette Winterson
Parts of this, notably the twelve dancing princesses' stories reminded me of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, but Sexing the Cherry has the benefit of also having a plot and characters. I found the Dog Woman to be the best narrator, as I was charmed by her fortitude and her protectiveness of her son and her country. Also charmed by the blurring of time that occurred near the end of the novel and would have liked more of that. I appreciate Winterson's writing when it's set in the distant past but enjoy her contemporary writing more. I also enjoy when she writes philosophically, here about time, religion, and gender ("This conspiracy of women shocked me...They think we are children with too much pocket money."...also a quote I can't find now about men being eager to show off for women with heroics, but reluctant to share the mundane work of daily life, which is more often what women want). I'm certain a second reading would uncover even more to like and to mull over.