Middlesex /

Eugenides, Jeffrey.

Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides. - New York : Picador, c2002. - viii, 529 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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Greek Americans--Fiction.
Suburban life--Fiction.
Gender identity--Fiction.
Intersexuality--Fiction.
Teenagers--Fiction.


Grosse Pointe (Mich.)--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.


Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.

PS3555.U4 / M53 2002

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