Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. 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. 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. My most recent driver's license.records my first name simply as Cal.' My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. The Silver Spoon I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides life and observations of his Greek heritage.

The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold since its publication. 'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ī dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides-the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. Middlesex is a 2002 novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, loosely based on elements of the author’s life and inspired by his Greek heritage.

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