6/7/2023 0 Comments Middlesex book cover![]() ![]() Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. "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. ![]()
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