Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detr...show more

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544 pages

Average rating: 8.02

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Plgooch
Jan 12, 2024
Need to read again
hognixon
Dec 27, 2023
10/10 stars
Very skeptical about the topic going into the book, but it was an absolute delight! Very captivating style of writing. I can't remember the last time I encountered a read where I didn't know all the vocab!
Carrin
Sep 18, 2023
Absolutely LOVED this book
Anonymous
Jul 18, 2023
10/10 stars
It’s insane how good this book is.
E Clou
May 10, 2023
8/10 stars
I wanted something cheerful to read during the honeymoon. This is my husband's idea of "cheerful." Some of it takes place in Greece, which is where we were honeymooning. Loved the beginning, but loved the end less. Maybe because I was less interested in Cal.

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