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Available
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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.
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Original publication date
2002-09-04
Media reviews
''Middlesex'' is a novel about roots and rootlessness. (The middle-sex, middle-ethnic, middle-American DNA twists are what move Cal to Berlin; the author now lives there too.) But the writing itself is also about mixing things up, grafting flights of descriptive fancy with hunks of conversational
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dialogue, pausing briefly to sketch passing characters or explain a bit of a bygone world.
''The Virgin Suicides'' is all of a piece, contained within the boundaries of one neighborhood; ''Middlesex'' -- a strange Scheherazade of a book -- is all in pieces, as all big family stories are, bursting the boundaries of logic. Show Less
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)