Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
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The book describes the pain and pleasure we feel as humans living on Earth, with the added struggles of being Greek in the midcentury Midwest and growing through puberty as an undiagnosed intersex individual.
Some of the strongest literary tools woven throughout were allusions to classic Greek literature and theater. I also loved the symbolism of the crocus and flower buds to describe something that might otherwise been seen as grotesque.
I truly loved this book and the stories it told. One of my favorite passages:
âFrom my birth when they went undetected, to my baptism where they upstaged the priest, to my troubled adolescence when they didnât do much of anything and then they did everything all at once, my genitals have been the most significant thing that ever happened to me. Some people inherit houses; others paintings or highly insured violin bows. Still others get a Japanese tansu or a famous name. I got a recessive gene on my fifth chromosome and some very rare family jewels indeed.â
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