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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS • A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides—the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first… Keep Reading