It's about Cal's parents and grandparents, and all the events of the world-war, riots, strife, poverty and prosperity-that made them who they are.Įugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, won the Pulitzer for fiction in 2003. Middlesex, being the modern-day Greek comic-tragedy that it is, isn't just about Cal though. (For all you med students out there who want to get technical, that means the doctor thought his pee-pee was a hoo-hoo.) Cal is born genetically male, but is raised female because his doctor thought he was a girl. This is the dilemma facing Cal Stephanides in Jeffrey Eugenides's epic novel Middlesex. When you live in a world full of gender stereotypes, what can you do to defy and redefine them? Who decided that girls should wear pink and boys should play with trucks? What if a boy wants to play with pink? Or a girl wants to wear a truck? Okay, that's not a good analogy, but you get what we mean. ArGender stereotypes are a funny thing (and by funny, we mean borderline infuriating).
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