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Intimate odyssey of intersex identity and heritage.

"Middlesex" is a fascinating exploration of identity, spanning generations and cultures. You'll be pulled in by its rich storytelling and complex characters, especially Calliope's deep internal journey. It's not just a story about gender; it's a saga that weaves history and personal discovery in a way that's both educational and profoundly human. This book's depth and compassion offer a window into experiences that are rarely represented with such dignity and narrative skill.

  • 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)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2002)
  • Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2005)
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Middlesex

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ISBN: 9780374199692
Date of Publication: 2002-09-28
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Race, LGBTQ+, Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 4.04
(rated by 648999 readers)

Description

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 classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them -- along with Callie's failure to develop -- leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia - back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly a hermaphrodite. Spanning eight decades -- and one unusually awkward adolescence -- Jeffrey Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists
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Intimate odyssey of intersex identity and heritage.

"Middlesex" is a fascinating exploration of identity, spanning generations and cultures. You'll be pulled in by its rich storytelling and complex characters, especially Calliope's deep internal journey. It's not just a story about gender; it's a saga that weaves history and personal discovery in a way that's both educational and profoundly human. This book's depth and compassion offer a window into experiences that are rarely represented with such dignity and narrative skill.

  • 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)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2002)
  • Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.