{"product_id":"middlesex-2","title":"Middlesex","description":"\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy most recent driver's license records my first name simply as Cal.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins 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 l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyrical and thrilling, \"Middlesex\" is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Eugenides","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46952394555561,"sku":"9780747561620","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780747561620.jpg?v=1718602612","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/middlesex-2","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}