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Middlesex

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.

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  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all."@en
  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all."
  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia--back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite."@en
  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia--back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite."
  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stepanides, a student at a girl's school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking strawberry blond classmate. Their furtive passion, along with Callie's failure to develop, leads Callie to think that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this takes us back in time to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers and one rare genetic mutation set in motion the metamorphis that would turn Callie into a being both mythical and real - a hermaphrodite."@en
  • "The tale of a gene that begins in a tiny village in Asia Minor and passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family until it flowers in the body of a teenage girl. A funny. poignant story of love and belonging."
  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls."@en
  • "Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stehanides, 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 1967, 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 wonderous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilirating reinvention of the American epic."
  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girl's school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them along with Callie's failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all."@en
  • "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girl's school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them along with Callie's failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all."
  • "Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s."@en
  • "Calliope Stephanides, whose never felt like one of the girls, begins her first foray into love in the spring of 1974 in Gross Pointe, Michigan. During this romance, she and her chain-smoking lover discover that she's a hermaphrodite. Shaken and confused, Calliope investigates her family history and genetics, ultimately uncovering a shocking family secret and consequently commencing a wondrous transformation."

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  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Bildungsromans"@en

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  • "Middlesex"@da
  • "Middlesex"
  • "Middlesex"@en
  • "Middlesex Read by Kristoffer Tabori"@en
  • "Middlesex [sound recording]"

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