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I am of split minds about Jeffrey Eugenides' “Middlesex” – ironic given that it is narrated by Cal (Cal/ Callie) a hermaphrodite who's a genetic male (with XY chromosomes) but has both a tiny penis and an infertile vagina. Sure, it is an interesting set-up. And given that much of the book is about the Greek immigrant experience in twentieth-century America, using Cal as a narrator allows Eugenides to tap a rich Greek cultural heritage, casting Cal as a modern-day Tiresias, the blind prophet popu
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One of those rare books where you can really inhabit the main character's world.
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