Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

<p>Enjoy our presentation of <i>Middlesex</i>, written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.</p><p>So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction.</p><p>Please be advised, <i>Middlesex </i>contains strong language, homophobia and graphic sexual content.</p><p><i>Middlesex </i>is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.</p><p> </p><p><i>Middlesex </i>is available as an ebook and audiobook from Libby by Overdrive.</p><p>Libby Ebook: <a href="https://www.overdrive.com/media/1567897/middlesex">https://www.overdrive.com/media/1567897/middlesex</a></p><p>Libby Audio: <a href="https://www.overdrive.com/media/134426/middlesex">https://www.overdrive.com/media/134426/middlesex</a></p><p> </p><p>Please visit <a href="https://calvert-library-book-bites.simplecast.com/episodes/www.calvertlibrary.info">www.calvertlibrary.info</a> for more information.</p><p> </p><p>Music:  Beach Bum Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License</p><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a></p>