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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: 2


A wonderful look at Greek Americans, starting with immigrants in the early 1900s and the family and life they make four generations forward. It is told from the view point of a hermaphrodite, the product of a mutaully consensual incestual relationship that went back 2 or 3 generations (brother-sister). This book takes on several things - like how immigrants were treated in America, discrimination issues, incest, bootlegging, hermaphrodites, porn and prostitution, and family ties. Excellent read.