Middlesex tells 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 1967 before moving 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.
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0 0So I have mixed feelings about this book. I liked the beginning. And most of the middle, though it did start to drag on and on for a while there. But I was disappointed in the end, it all just wrapped up so abruptly and neatly. And I could have done without the narrator interrupting himself to tell us about his dates. The book just felt like it went on too long. The author could have cut it by about half and it would have been great.
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