Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides • 2002
Devastation Rating
family literary fiction historical loss
Our Take
Three generations of a Greek-American family and the mutation that runs through them to Cal. Eugenides writes identity as inheritance and history as DNA, and Cal's becoming is the most honest account in fiction of what it costs to find yourself inside the wreckage of who your family was.
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