if flanigan O'Connor and Riley Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming of out story of a young British girl in 1960 maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette winterson's autobiographies first novel wenderson's voice with a hedonocratic wit and sensitivity is one you'll never heard before. adopted into the evangelistic household of a door industry Midlands where the heart and the heathen are everywhere especially next door Jeanette cut her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect. she knows all the verses to what a friend we have in Jesus and a very little about the world altogether nearly exactly lamb lick Jeanette embroiderers Graham religious monitodes and shakes her little tambourine for Jesus like a good missionary to be. but as a budding evangelistical comes of age and comes to terms with her preference her own sex The peculiar balance of her god-fearing household crumbles. her mother the pastor the Rock go to work on Jeanette's demons and announcing at her as someone to whom it is impossible to speak the truth yet Jeanette's Jeanette has to go against those who think that she should be a missionary and cuz in follow her heart because she's becoming who she is supposed to be a lesbian.