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Middlesex

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Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Format: Softcover
Pages: 544
Language: English

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex is 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.

The main character in Middlesex is Cal Stephanides, a hermaphrodite who was raised as a girl until he was a teenager when it was discovered that he was genetically a boy. Cal decides that he will live between the genders and be "middlesex". Jeffrey Eugenides' novel tells the family history and how sexual and cultural conditions led to Cal's birth and how Cal lives as both and neither as a man and a woman.

It's a book filled with history and family and assimilation, including how all of us sometimes feel out of the mainstream of life and must find our place to fit in. Identity is something everyone struggles with. Middlesex lets us know that we are not alone.