Winner, 2003 Pulitzer Prize
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 clasmate 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.
Spanning eight decades and one unusually awkward adolescence, Jeffrey
Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original
fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep,
untidy promptings of desire. It marks the fulfillment of a huge
talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and
The New Yorker. (From the publisher.)
Here is the Amazon link
[http://www.amazon.com/Middlesex-Novel-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0312427735/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440465083&sr=1-1&keywords=middlesex&pebp=1440465089979&perid=07XC5TQS9VNYCBESW72W]
if you would like to order it there.
Here is a link to the discussion questions
[http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/687-middlesex-eugenides?start=3]
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