Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of “The Virgin Suicides”–the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls’ school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond clasmate….Read More
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