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title: "Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)"
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# Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

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Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A stunning original
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2024*

I’ve never read anything quite like this. I was swept into this strange story that starts in a Greek village in what’s now turkey, weaves through Detroit’s fall into hard times in the 60s and 70s, but above all tracks the story of a girl who turns out to be not exactly a boy, but a hermaphrodite. It’s so well written, with vivid characters.. and while it almost completely avoids politics and contemporary culture wars it’s also a gentle meditation on gender, ethnicity, sexuality and identity, unspooled in a terrific story.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interssting book.
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2024*

The writer is creating vivid images. At times I would prefer the action to be faster but when I was following his pace I could slow down and almost dream with him. He brought life to the book’s pages. The story is amazing and I love that it goes so back in history. However, I am wondering if that was reality, could the protagonist be so forgiving, so accepting? He approached gender dysphoria in a general way, not digging into the protagonist's psyche. And also it appears as if others' gaze is pivotal in his acceptance of his body. I would expect to go deeper with him.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A "small" epic, Beautifully written...
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2013*

Middlesex was my first exposure to the author. I say that as preface to establish that I was a blank slate at the time I read the work. Discovering Mr. Eugenides for me has been the most pleasant experience. This book, as anyone can discern for themselves by reading a synopsis - concerns itself with Calliope who becomes Cal, and more importantly the story of his (or her) family. The clumsiness of my ability to assign gender aside, which may or may not be be politic, this book is emphatically not about gender. Oh, that is not to say that the book does not touch upon the subject. My point is that the intersex subject matter is not the crux of the story, but rather of symbolic importance, a way to access the family history. At one point in the narrative, early on, the narrator even says that this is a genetic history, the story of a single gene through the generations.Thus we come to my titular description of a "small" epic. Although that is unfair. It would be more accurate to say that it is close, because it deals with one family, and yet that would be just as inaccurate in its own way. I would say instead that nearly every character, and certainly the family. is imbued with characteristics that deepen them; in effect, make them more real. There are exceptions of course; it is not a perfect work, but any imperfections for me were worth it for the actual experience that is the good in this book. Portions of this book, particularly the insight the author gives into our protagonist, is pure poetry. This will always be a major plus for me. Of course I was not expecting the same kind of treatment to extend to a geography, Detroit, but I could certainly handle it. Normally, I don't respond nearly so well to an author who takes on a space as muse, especially in this kind of narrative that has a depth-ness of both time and space, but again, for me it didn't detract. At worst, the long soliloquies about Detroit only slowed down the narrative. Of course as a reader, it is slightly irritating that ostensibly for the amount of time that is spent on it, the zeitgeist of Detroit is a character itself. However, I don't know how much of this is the novel itself, or simply the limitations of the genre. Any work that concerns itself heavily with the passage of history, has to deal with that history. For all of the beauty of the words then, this book is pragmatic in that sense.But, to reiterate. When this book is good, it's good. Like candy or cake melting on the tongue. We get to see the characters as the ultimate snapshots of humanity - in highs and lows and everything in-between. Most impressively, for all that this book clothes itself in allusions towards mythology and tragedy, all of this is done without pretension.

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