By Jeffrey Eugenides

‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.’

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and a family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations.

Growing up in 1970s Michigan, Calliope’s inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, intergenerational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America.

Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.