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A review by selenajournal
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
5.0
before i go any further, i will say that i loved this book. thoroughly enjoyed it. i'm a new member of the jeffrey eugenides fan club and i've read everything he has laid his hands on thus far.
with this being said, he went out on a pretty thin limb with this one. incestuous greek families that produce a hermaphrodite child who runs away and lives for a few months as part of a "show" a la Geek Love (though, a little less creepy). granted, the story is well told and not impossible to follow. i'm sure this helps.
fact worth noting: he managed to make it onto the bestseller's list but i think anything he writes, regardless of merit, will make that list. did it strike anyone else as odd that our not-so-liberal best-seller's list had a hermaphrodite-incest-foreigner story? i thought it was awesome. maybe, just maybe, our society is becoming more open-minded.
with this being said, he went out on a pretty thin limb with this one. incestuous greek families that produce a hermaphrodite child who runs away and lives for a few months as part of a "show" a la Geek Love (though, a little less creepy). granted, the story is well told and not impossible to follow. i'm sure this helps.
fact worth noting: he managed to make it onto the bestseller's list but i think anything he writes, regardless of merit, will make that list. did it strike anyone else as odd that our not-so-liberal best-seller's list had a hermaphrodite-incest-foreigner story? i thought it was awesome. maybe, just maybe, our society is becoming more open-minded.