Middlesex
Eugenides, Jeffrey (, 1960-)
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2002. - 529 p. ; 24 cm
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.
English
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
9780374199692
Androgyny (Psychology)----Fiction
Gender identity---Fiction
Detroit (Mich.)----Fiction
FIC EUG
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2002. - 529 p. ; 24 cm
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.
English
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
9780374199692
Androgyny (Psychology)----Fiction
Gender identity---Fiction
Detroit (Mich.)----Fiction
FIC EUG
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