Middlesex

by

Hardcover, 606 pages

Italiano language

Published Sept. 1, 2013 by Mondadori.

ISBN:
978-88-04-51179-3
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4 stars (1 review)

Calliope, detta Callie, poi Cal, una rara specie di ermafrodito, ha vissuto i primi quattordici anni della sua vita come bambina, senza che nessuno si accorgesse della sua anomalia, fino a quando l'arrivo della pubertà l'ha sottoposta (sottoposto) a inevitabili trasformazioni. E adesso, uomo adulto, vuole scoprire le origini della mutazione genetica responsabile di questa sua "eccentricità biologica", e per farlo ripercorre l'intensa, drammatica e a sua volta alquanto "eccentrica" storia della famiglia Stephanides.

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reviewed Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2022 #FReadom read 13/20

4 stars

I just finished Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, the 13th book in my 2022 #FReadom reading list of books removed or threatened in Texas libraries and schools. I found Cal Stephanides to be a truly scintillating narrative voice for a fascinating story.

Eugenides offers rich, multithreaded explorations of Detroit, Greek-American family life, and other areas near his own experience. And he may lead some readers to reflect on the meaning of sex & gender, despite rooting the story overall in rather binary notions of gender.

But I believe the novel's insights on gender identity and intersex reality would have been deeper & more insightful had Eugenides actually spoken with intersex people when writing the novel. Sadly, he didn't - a disappointing missed opportunity. www.intersexinitiative.org/popculture/middlesex-faq.html

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