Article: MIGHTY HERMAPHRODITE AUTHOR JEFFREY EUGENIDES EXPLORES IDENTITY AND ALIENATION IN 'MIDDLESEX'.(U)

Byline: David Kronke Staff Writer

Jeffrey Eugenides' first book, the cult smash ``The Virgin Suicides,'' examined a group of misunderstood teenage sisters and the adolescent guys who obsessed over them from afar. His new book, ``Middlesex,'' concerns the coming-of-age of a teen who learns as s/he enters puberty that s/he's actually a hermaphrodite, and the mountain of sexual-identity issues that entails.

So - not to get nosy or anything, but how tortured were the author's teen years?

``They weren't particularly troubled, as one might think from my books,'' states Eugenides, in town recently for a book reading and signing. He's a man both ...

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