TY  - BOOK
N2  - Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
N2  - "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Calliope's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs 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. Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence--Jeffery Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire." -- Jacket flap
AB  - Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
AB  - "In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Calliope's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs 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. Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence--Jeffery Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire." -- Jacket flap
T1  - Middlesex /
AU  - Eugenides, Jeffrey,
ET  - First edition.
CN  - PS3555.U4
ID  - 1377221
KW  - Greek Americans
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Intersexuality
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Greek World.
KW  - Fictional Works [Publication Type]
KW  - Domestic fiction.
KW  - Gender identity.
KW  - Greek Americans.
KW  - Intersexuality.
KW  - Teenagers.
KW  - Einwanderer
KW  - Geschlechtsumwandlung
KW  - Griechische Familie
KW  - Identitätsfindung
KW  - Zwitter
KW  - Greek Americans
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Suburban life
KW  - Domestic fiction.
SN  - 0374199698
SN  - 9780374199692
SN  - 9780312422158
SN  - 0312422156
SN  - 9780312427733
SN  - 0312427735
TI  - Middlesex /
ER  -