December 8, 2009

Middlesex INtro

Posted in Blogs at 4:48 am by joycezacharypyvp

Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel Middlesex  focuses on the chronicle of forty-one-year-old, hermaphroditic Calliope Stephanides, which presents her multigenerational Greek-American family and her struggle to establish a clear sense of self. After opening with the story of her grandparents, Desdemona and Lefty, and their subsequent union, Cal traces the damaged gene that this brother and sister passed down through the generations to Cal, which causes her irregular gender.

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