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Even though this book won a Pulitzer, I wasn't that impressed. This book is about a man recounting his family's history, and how his grandmother thinks that her sinning made him into a hermaphrodite. He recounts what it did to him, and what his reaction to the news he was a hermaphrodite did to him and those around him. I loved the parts about Greece and the man's grandparents immigrating to America after fleeing from war. There were a few things I didn't like. Sometimes I felt the story line sh
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