Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides' first novel, The Virgin Suicides, has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. Middlesex, published in 2002, met with similar acclaim.

Middlesex traces an abnormal hermaphroditic gene through the generations of one Greek family and alighting upon " a girl named Callie and the man named Cal who she is to become."

"To call Middlesex a coming-of-age novel about a hermaphrodite would be like calling The Odyssey a story about some guy on a boat. Middlesex is nothing short of epic..."

Read the full review from Colleen AF Venable.