![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Up until the age of fourteen, Calliope was aware that there was something different about her, but it was not until then that doctors realised she was a hermaphrodite. Cal is now a man living in Berlin, but decades ago was actually born in Detroit as a girl called Calliope. Middlesex tells the epic story of three generations of the Stephanides family, omnisciently narrated through the eyes of Cal Stephanides. It was engaging and certainly held my attention, yet there were some aspects about it that bugged me slightly and what I’m still making my mind up about. In judging this story fairly, I will say that I truly enjoyed Middlesex for the most part. The subject matter and its corresponding themes are complex yet well written the book itself is a bit of a chunky saga, yet for me, seemed to fly by the narrator is memorable yet not just because of their original and distinctive voice… It’s a novel that seems to divide opinion as to whether or not it deserves all of the accolades that have came its way. This is a pretty tough book to review and it’s an even tougher one to talk about without giving away any potential spoilers about it. This edition published May 2003 by Bloomsbury And I told her: “This is the way I was.” (4 stars) I lifted my face and looked into my mother’s eyes. ![]()
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