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February 16, 2006
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The book Middlesex begins, "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." This story follows several generations of a Greek family, from Greece to the Detroit area and covers incest, war, life working at Ford in the early part of the last century, the 60s race riots in Detroit and growing up in the 60s and 70s. As a relatively recent transplant to Michigan, I found the local history fascinating.
ISBN: 0374199698
Pam M, Reserves
Posted by jnardine at February 16, 2006 11:43 AM