Middlesex
By: Jeffrey Eugenides.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
Subjects: Greek Americans -- Fiction.; Gender identity -- Fiction.; Hermaphroditism -- Fiction.; Teenagers -- Fiction.; Grosse Pointe (Mich.) -- Fiction.; Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.