![]() ![]() ![]() The title refers to the street where the family eventually move to in suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan, but also to the protagonist Calliope "Cal" Stephanides, who discovers that he is intersex, despite being raised as a girl. Loosely inspired by aspects of Eugenides' life and his Greek heritage, Middlesex is an intergenerational family drama that follows three generations of Greek-Americans descended from a brother and sister who immigrate from their tiny village to Prohibition-era Detroit. But Middlesex, which was published in 2002 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, is far more ambitious and Herculean than his quiet deep dive into the mysteries of adolescence. Eugenides is best known for writing The Virgin Suicides, which went on to become an acclaimed Sofia Coppola film. ![]()
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