Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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English - June 30, 2021 16:00 - 10 minutes - 6.24 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFiction Arts Books books adult fiction adult non-fiction audiobooks calvert library Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Enjoy our presentation of Middlesex, written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction.
Please be advised, Middlesex contains strong language, homophobia and graphic sexual content.
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Middlesex is available as an ebook and audiobook from Libby by Overdrive.
Libby Ebook: https://www.overdrive.com/media/1567897/middlesex
Libby Audio: https://www.overdrive.com/media/134426/middlesex
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