Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex

Unabridged: 21 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2003


Synopsis

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, 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. 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, 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.Sprawling across eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenide's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Susan on 2007-07-30 21:31:31

This is a great book, in a weird sort of way. It is one of the books I recommend to people as a 'must read.

AudiobooksNow review by Betty on 2007-08-09 12:03:30

This is one of the best audio books I have ever listened to! A combination of a fascinating story and a wonderful reader equals storytelling at it's best. This is a story rich with humor and sadness with ordinary heros.

AudiobooksNow review by Mark on 2007-12-31 20:13:26

this was the best audio-book I've listened to yet, it was truly and amazing story- very interesting, excellent narrator too. Mark in Colorado

AudiobooksNow review by Trista on 2008-09-23 15:34:50

Captivating and educational. An interesting look at the world throught the eyes of such a confused little girl.