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Article: FICTION; Androgynous in America; Jeffrey Eugenides' ambitious novel is a classic immigrant's tale with a sexual twist.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 8, 2002
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Byline: Brad Zellar
Special to the Star Tribune
Jeffrey Eugenides' acclaimed 1993 debut novel, "The Virgin Suicides," revealed a young author with an uncanny knack for limning the confusion of adolescence and the mysteries and claustrophobia of suburbia. In "Middlesex," the long-awaited followup, Eugenides returns to many of those same themes, but this time he tells the story of his young protagonist's tortured sexual awakening against a sprawling cross-cultural backdrop that is equal parts twisted family history, identity saga and tragicomic American epic.
Middlesex is the story of Cal Stephanides, born in Detroit in the 1960s to Greek ...
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