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Middlesex paints wonderful word pictures; at least that is what a friend told me when she lent me the book. It's true. Jeffrey Eugenides writing style is exquisite, revealing a panorama of generations belonging to the Greek family Stephanides. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and it's easy to see why.
The protagonist is also the narrator, Cal, a man who spent the first 14 years of his life being raised as a female. Cal, a hermaphrodite, must learn to balance his maleness and his femaleness, but explains how he ended up being the recipient of both sex organs. He begins his story by telling about his grandparents from Greece, his own parents in America, and then his own story.
The protagonist is also the narrator, Cal, a man who spent the first 14 years of his life being raised as a female. Cal, a hermaphrodite, must learn to balance his maleness and his femaleness, but explains how he ended up being the recipient of both sex organs. He begins his story by telling about his grandparents from Greece, his own parents in America, and then his own story.
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