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Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.

Eugenides, Jeffrey, (author.).

Summary:

Middlesex tells 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 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 wonderous narrators in contemporary fiction. -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0312422156
ISBN: 9780312427733
Physical Description: viii, 529 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Picador edition.
Publisher: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [2003]
Copyright: ©2002

Content descriptions

General Note:	Some copies are Oprah's book club with different cover image.
Formatted Contents Note:	Silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- Immodest proposal -- Silk road -- Henry Ford's English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- Mediterranean diet -- Wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- Obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- Gun on the wall -- Oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go west, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- Last stop.
Target Audience Note:	830L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 31 116030.
Awards Note:	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.