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Description
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Awards
Dublin Literary Award (Shortlist — 2004)
Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 2002)
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Fiction — 2003)
Audie Award (Finalist — 2003)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2002)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Shortlist — Fiction — 2003)
Stonewall Book Award (Honor Book — Fiction — 2003)
Ambassador Book Award (Winner — Fiction — 2003)
Great Lakes Book Award (Winner — Fiction — 2003)
Bad Sex in Fiction Award (Shortlist — 2002)
Oprah's Book Club selection (2007)