![]() ![]() ![]() However, there isn’t much mystery here, since we know from the outset where we are going but how Eugenides leads us there is what makes this book so amazing.Īlthough broken down into four ‘books’ Eugenides doesn’t stick completely to a chronological account. While this sounds somewhat cut and dry, Eugenides’ style is such that every piece of the puzzle is artistically drawn and gently fitted together. Together we learn the genealogy of Calliope Helen Stephanides and the events leading to her become Cal. While the investigation into only this one dramatic life-changing event could easily make an excellent novel, Eugenides also gives us the history of how this mutation came about, with the family’s history starting with her/his grandparents and their escape from Greece. ![]() Fascinating, right – and that’s just on the first pages of this novel. “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan in August of 1974.” So begins this book and the explanation for this intriguing conundrum comes promptly thereafter, when we learn of the narrator’s ancient genetic mutation, in conjunction with a brief smattering of the contradictions in the speaker’s life that led up to, and immediately followed, this astounding discovery. Book Review for “ Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides. ![]()
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