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Book Review of Middlesex

Middlesex
Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


This book was a well-written, ambitious combination of history, Greek mythology, medical terminology, family relationships, racial struggles, gender confusion and complex emotion.

I flew through the 500+ pages of this novel, even though I tend to be a slow, careful reader. This author certainly gives credit to the careful readers as it weaves its way through the story line, jumping back and fourth from multiple time periods in the past to present day.

Every time I got to the point where I was ready to put the book down, the author pulled me right back in with a shocking new plot line.

I highly recommend this book. Its not quite like anything Ive read before.