Middlesex: A Novel

Middlesex, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is Jeffrey Eugenides’s sweeping, lyrical tale of identity and family legacy. It follows Calliope Stephanides, who is born a girl but later discovers she is intersex and becomes Cal. Spanning three generations of a Greek-American family—from a village near Mount Olympus to Detroit’s rise and turmoil—Middlesex unravels the genetic secret that shapes Cal’s extraordinary life. Both epic and intimate, it’s a profound exploration of self, heritage, and transformation.