Book Review: Middlesex

Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Back Cover Overview: "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 racfe riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan. To understand why Calliopeis not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Calli into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American Epic."

A Nu View: I found Middlesex to be an absolutely amazing book! It holds the reader from beginning to end and allows one to be encompassed by the life of Callie. I particularly enjoyed the background given of the Stephanides family and how their choices lead up to the choices Callie would have to make. I would definitely recommend this book to many one looking for a good read on both an intellectual and entertainment level. 5 stars from Nu's view!