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Kingston – Books 15 – IMG_7175

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher: Picador – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

The Silver Spoon.....3

Matchmaking…..19

An Immodest Proposal…..40

The Silk Road…..63

BOOK TWO

Henry Ford’s English-Language Melting Pot…..79

Minotaurs…..106

Marriage on Ice…..126

Tricknology…..149

Clarinet Serenade…..166

News of the World…..183

Ex Ovo Omnia…..198

BOOK THREE

Home Movies…..215

OPA!....232

Middlesex…..252

The Mediterranean Diet…..27`

The Wolverette…..291

Waxing Lyrical…..307

"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."

So 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, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Paperback  529 pages  ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42773-3