Middlesex ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

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What a superbly crafted piece of literature. What an enthralling epic! I opened its cover anticipating a fictional journal of self discovery and perhaps a love story. I found, instead, a sweeping epic of the richest detail, beginning in Turkey and migrating to Detroit. Preformation, "prenatal omniscience," war and refuge from war, incest... I like how the entirety of the story is contained within the narrator's family. I like the hot and heavy chapter of Cal's (Calliope's, at the time) puberty. I don't know what to say about the story, other than I was deeply absorbed and I wish that more books grabbed me like this one did.

Maybe I'll show you some tabs I still have open from when I was reading this a couple of weeks ago.

Cootie Garages
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Eartha Kitt
Nonpareils
E. O. wilson
Bosun's chair
Grand Trunk Station, Buhl Building, Penobscot Building
Wallace Fard Muhammad