April 2, 2009
A friend gave me a novel the other day with an A++ recommendation.
Published in 2002 it won the 2003 Pulitzer Price for Fiction.
Written by Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (the reference is to hermaphrodism) tells the story of an American of Greek heritage who (to borrow the opening lines) 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.
Only 30 pages in, but so far enjoying the style and intrigued by the story.
Published in 2002 it won the 2003 Pulitzer Price for Fiction.
Written by Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (the reference is to hermaphrodism) tells the story of an American of Greek heritage who (to borrow the opening lines) 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.
Only 30 pages in, but so far enjoying the style and intrigued by the story.
