Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I like the story very much because it is somekind of personal but I'm not a hermaphrodite. This is due perhaps to Chazz Bono in Dancing with the Stars, which I love watching in cable TV, and the enfamous breakdown of Rustom Padilla aka Bebe Gandanghari of the Pinoy Big Brother sometime ago.
Middlesex is a story about what it means to occupy the complex and unnamed middle ground between male and female, Greek and American, past and present. For Cal, caught between these identities, the journey to adulthood is particularly fraught. Jeffrey Eugenides' epic portrayal of Cal's struggle is classical in its structure and scope and contemporary in its content; a tender and honest examination of a battle that is increasingly relevant to us all.
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