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Eugenides' 2002 book Middlesex is not a work of non-fiction, nor is it based on a true story. Eugenides was inspired by memoirs by Herculine Barbin, a 19th-century intersex girl.

With an endearing and smart narrator, and a cast of unforgettable characters, Middlesex is a story about the trials and tribulations of both childhood and adolescence, and a poignant portrayal of Calliope “Cal” Stephanides, as we discover the humanity of a character one might otherwise find alienated elsewhere.

This Pulitzer Prize winning novel explores the family history and life of a female-reared protagonist who has an intersex condition doctors call 5-alpha reductase deficiency.

Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to ...

Like everything in Cal's life, the word Middlesex has dual meanings, the obvious one being the fact that Cal is between sexes. (Insert as much talk about genitals as you're willing to stand right now.) He is both male and female anatomically speaking, and occupies both genders over the course of his life.

A lot of intersex people, trans people, and queer people hate the novel. A lot of intersex people, trans people, and queer people say it accurately reflected the thoughts, feelings, and experiences they had when they were younger. Some people say it's too long or too odd or overly descriptive.

The work, written from the point of view of a gay man, was released at a time when homosexuality was still far from being accepted, and critics slammed it for its sexual references, both subtle and overt.

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.