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Article: Pointe of view: `Middlesex,' `Virgin Suicides' author Jeffrey Eugenides returns to his Detroit-area roots.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 30, 2002
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Sitting with Jeffrey Eugenides, author of "The Virgin Suicides" and now "Middlesex," in a restaurant recently, I'm on red alert for flinches and squirms. It's not that he won't answer questions. He's too well-bred to be even the teensiest bit hostile.
It's just that, well, maybe it takes a writer as fine as Eugenides to realize how lethal the right (or wrong) words can be. So he's a little reluctant to let the wrong words go into something as uncontrolled as a newspaper interview.
For instance, there's the matter of his 4-year-old daughter's name. Eugenides gives it quickly, then starts and slams the brain shutters closed but not before I catch the ...
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