After escaping the Turks who set fire to their hometown, the pair marry in Detroit.Īs the family establishes their own business, Desdemonda begins to worry that she has committed a grave sin by marrying Lefty and that their children will be born as hybrids like minotaurs with monstrous deformities. This life and potentially gender-altering gene begins its journey in Smyrna in 1922 with Lefty and Desdemonda, siblings who fall in love. Middlesex is a family saga that chronicles the “roller coaster ride of a single gene” and its impact upon three generations of a Greek-American family, ultimately leading to the question of whether Cal, the protagonist, is a girl or a boy. It displays a new dimension of Eugenides’s talent for storytelling while still perpetuating themes of coming-of-age and self-discovery (found in his first novel), along with the conflict between destiny and free will. Middlesex is more lengthy and well-researched than his debut novel. Middlesex is Eugenides’s second novel which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2003.
The American writer Jeffrey Eugenides’ novels Middlesex and The Marriage Plot serve as a formidable pair of novels, each one presenting an atmospheric, detail-packed world centered around the theme of coming of age. “Jeffrey Eugenides’ writing style is decorated with detail, haunted with mystery, and exemplifies the complexity of the human mind and experience,” said Sela Emery ’23.
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