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June 2007
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A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The
Virgin Suicidesthe
astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three
generations
of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a
teenage girl.
In
the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a
girls' school
in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking,
strawberry
blond clasmate with a gift for acting. The passion that
furtively
develops between themalong with Callie's failure to
developleads Callie
to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is
not really
a girl at all.
The explanation for this shocking state of
affairs takes us out of suburbia- back before the Detroit
race riots of
1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to
1922, when
the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for
their lives.
Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and
one rare
genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will
turn Callie
into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a
hermaphrodite.
Spanning
eight decadesand one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey
Eugenides's
long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable
of crossed
bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy
promptings
of desire. It marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named
one of
America's best young novelists by both Granta and
The New Yorker.
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