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Middlesex: A Novel
 

Middlesex: A Novel

by Jeffrey Eugenides

A 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.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond clasmate with a... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  pulitzer prize,  contemporary fiction,  coming of age,  transgender (all tags)

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Hannah
  • Rated 5 stars

“Another work of excellence by Jeffrey Eugenides. Middlesex was a nine year project for the author, which resulted in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The story chronicles Calliope, now Cal, an intersexaul individual forced to cope with a shameful past and an equally chagrined present. As Middlesex unfolds, we see the result that concealing a shocking secret can have on multiple generations of a family. Cal's laborious quest for love and acceptance is rich with both pleasure and pain.”

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Alisa D
  • Rated 2 stars

“this is actually 2 books in 1! 2 very bad books! I only finished it because it was my pick for the book club--now I can say--I'll read anything, I've read Middlesex. It was neither entertaining or informative--but it sure was long!”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.147526 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.538462 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • esclave

    esclave said:

    “I gave up midway through; I just couldn't do it! It was interesting but it just felt like it was going nowhere.”

    posted Friday, August 29 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • er0s p

    er0s p said:

    “i now have all reasons to have and read this book..hope that somehow this could answer all my questions about identity.”

    posted Saturday, August 16 2008
  • Kerri W

    kerri w said:

    “I wrote this in my review, and what really drew me in was how well Eugenides connects Greek Mythology into contemporary fiction. There was always that theme you can't change fate. And I feel like there is a metamorphis and changing theme that continues through the story, but I think there's also parts that don't change and can't change.”

    posted Thursday, June 26 2008
  • Lacy Valentine

    lacy valentine said:

    “I love love love this book. Eugenides did such an amazing job with the mythology and pain involved in the protagonist's weird journey through puberty. In my top 5 books about incest.”

    posted Sunday, May 25 2008 ( | view 3 replies )
  • Pam E

    pam e said:

    “LOVED Prep”

    posted Monday, May 19 2008
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