Middlesex: A Novel Science ” — The New York

” — The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Enjoy bowls of pork

Dostoevsky’s drama of sin

Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic

very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one

Middlesex: A Novel Science ” — The New York"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent drivers license records my first name simply as Cal." So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek American Stephanides family