Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Cal Stephanides, raised as a girl and discovering at fourteen that he is not what his family believed, traces a recessive gene back to a Greek village burned at Smyrna in 1922. The line runs through Detroit, Prohibition and the 1967 riots; a Greek-American family epic with a narrator who claims the knowledge of Tiresias.

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