![]() The book covers the students final days of college and the first steps they make into adulthood. The story tells of the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s: Madeleine, a romantic who is embarrassed about how normal she is Leonard, a brilliant but temperamental student from the northwest and Mitchell, a Religious Studies major from Detroit. Middlesex, his second novel, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The explanation takes us back to tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that Callie is undergoing.Įugenides also penned The Marriage Plot, one of the best books of 2011. The girls develop a passion that leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls, and she’s not really a girl at all. Calliope is a student at an all-girls school in 1974 and finds herself drawn to a classmate with the gift for acting. ![]() Middlesex is a story that spans eight decades as it tells an original tale of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. If You Like Jeffrey Eugenides Books, You’ll Love… ![]()
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