Middlesex
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…
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September 23, 2003JEFFREY EUGENIDES is the son of an American-born father whose Greek parents emigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent. The Virgin Suicides was first published in 1993 to rapturous acclaim and it has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. Middlesex, his second novel, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Jeffrey Eugenides's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review and Granta. Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey.