num_pages: 529
description: 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. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point Michigan. To understand why she is not like other girls Calliope has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns her into Cal one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
language: English
title: Middlesex
titlecomplete: Middlesex
characters: Eleutherios Stephanides, Sourmelina Zizmo, Calliope Stephanides, The Obscure Object, Chapter Eleven, Desdemona Stephanides, Miltiades Stephanides, Theodora Stephanides, James Zizmo, Michael Antoniou
genres: Fiction, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 631870
places: Michigan, Bursa, Izmir, Detroit, Michigan, Berlin
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Unabridged, awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: Bloomsbury