Cal traces his heredity back several generations, through different geographic and political landscapes and several literary styles. The story-though there’s no one, definitive story being told-is narrated by Cal Stephanides, a hermaphrodite living in Berlin at the beginning of the 21st century. Whereas The Virgin Suicidesis a localized story (suburban Detroit) addressing one incident (the suicides of the Lisbon girls) and told with a kind of darkly humorous melancholy, Middlesex is a roiling epic that careens from Greece to America, misadventure to misadventure, magical to social realism. Whatever you might be expecting, Middlesex will surprise you. All of which made me excited not only to have an early look at his forthcoming novel Middlesex but to hear some of his ideas in this more formal context about writing and life. From the beginning of his novel The Virgin Suicides to the end of his most recent email, I’ve always been enamored of how vivid Jeff’s mind is and how clearly he seems to know what it is he wants to say. I’ve known Jeffrey Eugenides for several years and in several contexts-first as one of his readers, then as a student of his at Princeton, and now as a friend. Lynne Tillman's This Is Not Itby Nell McClisterįrancine Prose's The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspiredby Victoria Ludwin Jenny Lynn Penberthy's Lorine Niedecker: Collected Worksby Matthea Harveyįrederic Tuten's The Green Hourby Eric Kraft Múm's Finally We Are No Oneby Eric David JohnsonĪrt Cuba: The New Generation by Holly Blockby Rachel Kushner Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocityby Susan Shacter
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