Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
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Even though it was set in my mother’s birthplace, Detroit, Michigan. Even though the story of an intersex youth piqued my curiosity.
The book sat on my shelf for years. It moved across the country with me twice, and then, in 2016, it was sold in an estate sale.
Last year, my husband was looking for some good reads. I remembered all the praise Middlesex had received, so I bought another first edition, just like the one I’d had for years and never read, so he could read it. He didn’t.
Last week, I finally decided to give it a go. And guess what? I’ve now placed it on my short list of the best books I’ve ever read.
Jeffrey Eugenides is an amazing, beautiful, eloquent, humorous, intelligent, soulful storyteller. Not since A Gentleman in Moscow (another of my all-time favorites) have I hung on every word of a book.
Middlesex is epic in scope—beginning at the turn of the 20th century in Greece and taking us to America through the eyes of immigrants in 1923, the same year my own immigrant grandfather arrived through New York and eventually settled in Detroit. We follow the Stephanides family, with all their eccentricities, ethnicity, and hardships, through the 1970s.
Told by Cal, our narrator, the story sweeps you up and pulls you in.
A must-read. Maybe I wasn’t meant to read it until now. Maybe it took me this long to be ready.
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