To explain his present, Cal delves deeply into his past, which includes his incestuous grandparents’ emigration to Detroit from That is more or less the book’s plot, but the thing that makes Middlesex special is that, like most life stories, Cal’s doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Those suspicions are confirmed when he develops a powerful attraction to a female classmate, whom he refers to only as the “Obscure Object.” The relationship eventually leads Cal to discover his true identity, and sets him on a whole new path. But as Callie gets older, his voyage into puberty diverges sharply from the other girls he knows, and he begins to suspect, subconsciously at first, that something is different about him. Into a Greek-American family, “Callie", as he is first known, seems like a girl to everyone – parents, his half-blind, old-fashioned doctor and even the other kids at school. The narrator and protagonist of Middlesex is Cal, a hermaphrodite raised as girl who later finds something resembling happiness as a man. The genius of Middlesex is that it takes a main character who is something other than “normal” and makes that character achingly, recognizably human. It isn’t even that Middlesex is the rare novel set in Detroit that captures that city’s danger and sad beauty at the same time. It isn’t in his precise use of language to evoke feelings of poignancy and amusement, often in the same sentence. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.The genius of Jeffrey Eugenides’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex isn’t in its seamless melding of three generational story strands into a captivating whole.
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. 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. My most recent driver's license.records my first name simply as Cal." My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. "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. Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ī 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.
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