"Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides

[Cherie]

Anyone read it?

I'm reading it at the moment for a bookclub I'm part of - I'm only a few chapters in, but enjoying it so far, although I'm already having trouble remembering how everyone fits into the family tree, so I'm sure I'm going to continue to get more confused as the book progresses lol.

[paradise lost]

I've read it. I quite liked it though to be honest i found the Virgin Suicides more believeable...

Bx

[Indadhanu]

I read it... a while ago... i t was on the top 100 list Dymocks (was it dymocks?!?!? or A&R?) anyway, they whoever put out a while ago, and I was reading throught the list.

It was a bit odd, and hard to keep track of!!! But it was really interesting form a sociological point of view.

The ending is weird. Thats all I'll say!!!

[Jaycee]

I've never heard of it before, can you let me know what it's about (without giving it all away!)

[paradise lost]

It's about the life of a person who was born with a genetic difference causing them to be of intermediate sex. Their genitals were one thing, their genetics another.

Do not be offended by the title. Middlesex was either their house name or their street name as a kid...the street i think.

Bx

[Cherie]

Janine, the blurb on the back of the book says:
"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."

Hoobley, it's funny you should say that, about the street name. Before I knew what the book was about, I assumed from the title that it was a period English piece, like Pride & Prejudice or simliar. Then when I found out what the book was about, I assumed (I thought rightly this time pmsl) that middlesex referred to the indeterminate gender. Now I find out I was wrong on both counts LOL.

[Jaycee]

Sounds interesting, I might have to give it a go
Thanks for that!