Middlesex
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Publication Year
2002
ISBN
9780374199692
Pages
544 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
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.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
830L
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Intersex; intersex adult
Main Character
intersex adult
Race/Ethnicities
White (Greek)
Family Formation
multi-generational
LGBTQ+
intersex person
Keywords
Greek family; incest; Michigan; world history; silkworms; grandparents; mythology; identity; dating; Chapter Eleven bankruptcy
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Eugenides, Jeffrey, "Middlesex" (2002). Diverse Families. 1717.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1717