Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Length: 529 pages
Middlesex
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Description
“So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.”
Janet Dore –
What an incredible writer! After seeing him – along with several intersexuals – on Oprah, my interest was piqued. I absolutely loved this book!!! It meets all of my criteria…great writing, a story that hooks you in and keeps you turning the pages, strong character development. And this book gave you a cherry on top…an education on what we grew up knowing as ‘hermaphrodite’, but never really understood (hence, thought was ‘weird’). Nothing weird here…just a person struggling with