Middlesex

MiddlesexI 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. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license records my first name simply as Cal. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek American Stephanides family

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. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal.

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. 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. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 06/05/2007
ISBN: 9780312427733
Pages: 529
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.51w x 0.91d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 11/25/2011 pg. 77
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 98

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 116030 / Middlesex
Reading Level: 5.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 31