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Oprah's Book Club: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Wednesday June 6, 2007

Jeffrey Eugenides' first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. Middlesex, published in 2002, met with similar acclaim. In fact, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. Now that Oprah is on board, Jeffrey Eugenide's Middlesex can expect to reach new heights in popularity.

Read the book review of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

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