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Eugenides, Jeffrey.

Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.

1st ed.

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.

529 p. ; 24 cm.

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 grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

Greek Americans -- Fiction.

City and town life -- Fiction.

Suburban life -- Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.

Silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- Immodest proposal -- Silk road -- Henry Ford's -- English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- Mediterranean diet -- Wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- Obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- Gun on the wall -- Oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go west, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- Last stop.

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