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REVIEWS: Middlesex
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The NY Times
The Guardian
Goodreads
Book Companion
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction. 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
real: a hermaphrodite.
Characters: 156. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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