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 1974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver-s license...records my first name simply as Cal." So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie 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.--back cover
language: English
title: Middlesex
titlecomplete: Middlesex
characters: Sourmelina Zizmo, Calliope Stephanides, Miltiades Stephanides, Eleutherios Stephanides, The Obscure Object, James Zizmo, Theodora Stephanides, Chapter Eleven, Michael Antoniou, Desdemona Stephanides
genres: Classics, LGBT, Historical, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 631870
places: Michigan, Izmir, Berlin, Bursa, Detroit, Michigan
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