{"product_id":"middlesex-9780312427733","title":"Middlesex","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo 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. Lyrical and thrilling, \u003ci\u003eMiddlesex \u003c\/i\u003eis an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiddlesex \u003c\/i\u003eis the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312427733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.51w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/25\/2011 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/05\/2013 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e116030 \/ Middlesex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.8 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 31\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Eugenides","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635882422428,"sku":"9780312427733","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_563bde64-ae80-48fc-866c-5bd8b4298ccf.jpg?v=1603840786","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/middlesex-9780312427733","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}