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Overall, Middlesex is a well-written book. Even though it is a novel, Jeffrey Eugenides thoroughly researched intersexuality, making the book a realistic look into the life of a female hermaphrodite. The biggest problem with the book was the narrator—sometimes it was an omniscient narrator looking back into a history and time that the main character, Calliope, could know nothing about and sometimes it was Calliope herself. This change in narration was a bit awkward, but once you get past that, t
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Such a good read. Eugenides does a very good job of looping in and out of his story- past and current, his parent's story and his grandparents story. As a native of metro Detroit, the descriptions of Detroit, the suburbs and northern Michigan provided a nice dose of nostalgia. This is an excellent and perceptive look at what it means to be a sexual person, an American and a family member.
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best airport-book purchase i've made in awhile... i devoured it, read it at stoplights.
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Jul 24, 2007
treehugger
marked it as to-read
Bleh. Maybe I'll come back to this one. Not in the mood.
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Jun 25, 2007
eloise
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Allison James-Garcia
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Deanna
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