Middlesex eugenides review5/11/2023 She’s a great narrator, being almost painfully honest. I liked Calliope and her eccentric family. “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, Michgan, in August of 1974.” This is not a spoiler the first sentence spells this out. For the purposes of simplicity, I’m mostly going to refer to Calliope as she throughout my review because she’s living as a girl for the vast majority of the book. I really liked it, but I’ve forgotten a lot of details. I wish I had reviewed this immediately after I read it. Then her hormones start raging and her life changes forever. For her part, she’s pretty happy as a girl until she hits her teens. Thanks to a less-than-thorough family doctor and parents with a bit of a “hands off” policy, no one realizes that Calliope is different for years and years. What makes Calliope’s story so different though, is that she’s a hermaphrodite. Calliope then moves on to her parents’ courtship and then her own life, up into her teen years. As the Turks and Greeks were fighting, they managed to flee to America and start a new life there. She tells the story of how she came to be by starting with her grandparents in their isolated village. Calliope Stephanides is born to a family of Greek immigrants living in Detroit.
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