yet so warm-hearted that it’s hard to resist’
USA Today
‘Even as Eugenides gives us a contemporary model for the grand narratives of social realism, he has conscripted scientific arguments into the service of unforgettably beautiful myths and metaphors for human nature’
Evening Standard
‘Wildly inventive … it was worth the wait; this is a truly extraordinary novel based around one brilliantly drawn character’
Red
‘The ideal book for those who enjoy intimate tales on an epic scale. *****’
Sunday Express
‘A grand narrative of the immigrant experience and a deliciously twisted romance’
Esquire
‘Ever so rarely, I read a novel that deserves the accolade of ’tour de force’. Jeffrey Eugenides’s new book Middlesex is such a novel, managing to be both immense in its human scope and moving and funny in its human detail. Life-changing is a rather alarming way to describe a book, but I suspect this one is just that’
Joanna Trollope’s Book of the Year, Daily Mail
‘Unprecedented, astounding … The most reliably American story there is: A son of immigrants finally finds love after growing up feeling like a freak’
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
‘Handled with storytelling genius … a good, old-fashioned family saga, owing its epic qualities to a fine cast of memorable individuals’
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‘Not for nothing has Eugenides been acclaimed as some new Homer: he offers similar scope, heroics and Greeks enduring watery misadventures … the prose is always generous, frequently amusing and never dull’
Financial Times
‘A vast great sprawling story, flickering through three generations, brilliantly engaging, stunningly written’
Anna Pavord’s Book of the Year, Evening Standard
‘Dazzling …a big, fat, funny American book without which no chattering-class home is complete’
GQ
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CONTENTS
Copyright
Praise for Middlesex
Dedication
Henry Ford’s English-Language Melting Pot
Looking Myself Up in Webster’s
Gender Dysphoria in San Francisco
