Middlesex /

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 grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Eugenides, Jeffrey
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Picador, [2002]
Subjects:	Greek Americans > Fiction. Gender identity > Fiction. Intersexuality > Fiction. Teenagers > Fiction. Teenage girls > Fiction. Hermaphrodites > Fiction. Grosse Pointe (Mich.) > Fiction. Detroit (Mich.) > Fiction. Michigan > Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans.