Middlesex: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize Winner) [B0922]

2007 PB in nice clean condition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. "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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "In Middlesex , the themes of identity and self-discovery are tightly woven through intersexuality, gender norms, and Cal's coming-of-age story. This triad-body, society, and personal growth-anchors the novel's core tension: How do you become yourself when the world insists you must be one thing or the other?"; "The story of this family was amazing along with the events happening in the world. Heartbreaking and funny! It kept me entertained."; "One of the most fun and creative narrative voices I've read in a while, especially in the first half."; "A beautifully written book about family, culture and heritage and how they define us, and about all the ties that bind us."; "Written in a way that made me gawk at every page and recite paragraphs to my family."