Absolutely, without a doubt, Middlesex is not to be missed … and, as in my case, truly an enormously rewarding better-late-than-never read.
Cal’s own epic self-discovery, intricately interwoven through his ancestral tale, is a complex … dare I say … transformative journey.Įugenides’ playful, seemingly effortless invention belies his fearsome erudition. Top 13 Reads of 2017 Published on DecemDecemby bibliomeds. But even before Cal’s inception, the family saga spans 250 prior years, complete with chromosomal mutations, fifth cousins who are also siblings, triple migrations (from Greece to Turkey to the United States), multiple wars and other conflagrations, and various saints and avid sinners who all play an active role in his creation, and his undefinable, unpredictable life. The pressure, the pressure!Ĭlearly Middlesex holds one of fiction’s most memorable opening lines: “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”Īt 41, Calliope Helen Stephanides by birth certificate is now simply Cal according to his current (German) driver’s license. What a fabulous reading year It was nearly impossible to narrow this down to 10 best books because I. This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can submit a news tip here. Nine years later (pattern forming here? – his debut The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex are also nine years apart), Eugenides’ longingly anticipated, much buzzed-about third, The Marriage Plot, is about to hit shelves in a couple of weeks (official pub date: October 11), and that anticipation is probably what finally prompted me to pick up Middlesex. For book lovers, 2017 was a fabulous reading year, especially when it came to romance novels. Anyone with information should call the Middlesex Crime Line at 80.
listeners since 2017, and have over 11 million streams just on Spotify alone read more. Eight years have passed since Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (as well as too many other accolades to list) for this, his second novel, and nine years since it was first published. Find the best private Guitar lessons in Middlesex County, NJ.
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