Middlesex is an epic family saga that explores themes of identity, heritage, and the complexities of gender and sexuality, against the backdrop of changing times. The book aptly captures the experience of struggling with an ambiguous identity in a world of binaries. Eugenides' masterpiece is a must-read for anyone looking to explore the nuances of identity and the immigrant experience in America.

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• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2003)
• Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Literature (2003)
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2003)
• Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2003)
• Audie Award for Fiction, Unabridged (2003)
• Lambda Literary Award for Transgender (1)
• National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2002)
• Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2005)

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August 1974."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 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan.To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing generic history that turns her to Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

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