Middlesex A Novel
Middlesex A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, published by Picador on June 5, 2007, is a first edition that spans 544 pages. This narrative begins with the unique story of Calliope Stephanides, who is born as a girl in Detroit and later transforms into a teenage boy named Cal. The novel traces the journey of the Greek-American Stephanides family from their origins in a small village in Asia Minor to their experiences in Detroit during significant historical events, including the Prohibition era and the 1967 race riots.
Readers will find a rich exploration of identity and family secrets as Calliope seeks to understand her transformation and the genetic history that shapes her life. The book delves into themes of heritage and the complexities of gender, all while presenting a vivid backdrop of American history. Middlesex offers a lyrical and thrilling narrative that reimagines the American epic through the lens of one family’s extraordinary experiences.
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“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. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license…records my first name simply as Cal.”
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.
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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