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laneamagya 's review for:
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Read my full review of the audiobook version here: http://booksforears.com/2010/02/22/middlesex-by-jeffrey-eugenides/
I try to try to read all of the big prizewinning novels. I loved The Virgin Suicides, and decided to hold off on reading this one for a little while until I knew I could savor it. And savor it I did. I think, with this one, Eugenides has written a defining boom of an age. I know that sounds ridiculously grandiose, but the novel is astoundingly good.
The book is an intricate, beautifully researched and written novel about Greece, Smyrna, family, war, silk, race, civil rights, Detroit, prohibition, gender, sex, and genetics. The scope seems unmanageable, but Eugenides pulls it off with grace and compassion and specificity. I know I'll read it again. I'm tempted to read it again right now.
I try to try to read all of the big prizewinning novels. I loved The Virgin Suicides, and decided to hold off on reading this one for a little while until I knew I could savor it. And savor it I did. I think, with this one, Eugenides has written a defining boom of an age. I know that sounds ridiculously grandiose, but the novel is astoundingly good.
The book is an intricate, beautifully researched and written novel about Greece, Smyrna, family, war, silk, race, civil rights, Detroit, prohibition, gender, sex, and genetics. The scope seems unmanageable, but Eugenides pulls it off with grace and compassion and specificity. I know I'll read it again. I'm tempted to read it again right now.