Welcome back to RainbowLit in 2024, where we will be reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

Middlesex tells 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 1967 before moving 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, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

The book will not be available to pick up at the library, so please place a hold to have a copy sent to the Beech Street Center. You can request the book by clicking here. Questions? Email May at mforkin@minlib.net.