{"product_id":"middlesex-9780312427733","title":"Middlesex","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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 driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's \u003ci\u003eMiddlesex \u003c\/i\u003eis an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Eugenides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312427733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e116030 \/ Middlesex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/25\/2011 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/05\/2013 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Eugenides\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides received The Pulitzer Prize for his novel \u003ci\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/i\u003e (Picador, 2003). \u003ci\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/i\u003e, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, France's Prix Medicis, has sold over four million copies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44411308048499,"sku":"9780312427733","price":22.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_894bebc2-0546-4eca-96ce-7c86d0ef81d3.jpg?v=1772024633","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/middlesex-9780312427733","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}