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Calliope (Cal) Stephanides, born after World War II, was raised as a girl until the teenage years. Then, at 14, puberty kicked in and Cal matured into a boy.
Doctors found that Cal was a hermaphrodite with male (XY) sex chromosomes, intersex genitals, and a recessive genetic mutation that messes with the sex hormones.
But Cal's story (and genetic troubles) started long before, in 1922, when his Greek grandparents lived in Smyrna, Turkey. Unable to find suitable mates a brother and sister - Desdem ...more
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This is an unpopular opinion: I can't tell the 90s Nexus of Interchangeability men apart. This guy, Franzen, Foster Wallace, Auster, Easton Ellis, Rick Moody...I have to check the spine every so often to see whose work I'm reading. It's not bad, per se, but undistinguished and therefore indistinguishable. I've had it up to the back teeth with this blurry-edged author's stuff and don't want to read it anymore.
There. I said it. *dons anti-flying-monkey helmet and armor* Co ...more
This is an unpopular opinion: I can't tell the 90s Nexus of Interchangeability men apart. This guy, Franzen, Foster Wallace, Auster, Easton Ellis, Rick Moody...I have to check the spine every so often to see whose work I'm reading. It's not bad, per se, but undistinguished and therefore indistinguishable. I've had it up to the back teeth with this blurry-edged author's stuff and don't want to read it anymore.
There. I said it. *dons anti-flying-monkey helmet and armor* Co ...more
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