02293cam a2200385 4500 57001602 TxAuBib 20070723120000.0 070723s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002019921 9780374199692 alk. paper 0374199698 alk. paper (OCoLC)48951262 TxAuBib Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002. viii, 529 p. ; 24 cm. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides finds herself drawn to a classmate at her girls' school in Grosse Point, Michigan. That passion -- along with her failure to develop -- leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. The explanation for this is a rare genetic mutation -- and a guilty secret -- that have followed Callie's grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Nominated for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction. 2002 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Transgender. (B&N.) 20070723. Greek Americans Fiction. Gender identity. Fiction. Intersexuality Fiction. Teenagers Fiction. Grosse Pointe (Mich.) Fiction. Detroit (Mich.) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2002019921.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/hol051/2002019921.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002019921.html Publisher description TXLIV