Middlesex (2002)
546 pages 4.1/5 Goodreads
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.
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
ISBN: 9780374199692
Content Warnings
Identity & Discrimination
Hate crimes (depicted)
Other
Infidelity War / combat
Substance Use
Alcohol abuse (depicted)
Violence & Physical Harm
Domestic violence / intimate partner abuse Sexual assault / rape
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