Middlesex — By Jeffrey Eugenides Pdf

The "5-alpha-reductase deficiency" that affects Cal is traced back through three generations of the Stephanides family, starting with a secret incestuous relationship in a Greek village.

The protagonist is born and raised as a girl in 1960s Detroit before discovering a genetic mutation that leads to a male identity later in life. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Pdf

Cal’s grandparents who flee Smyrna for Detroit, carrying the recessive gene that eventually manifests in Cal. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Pdf

The story mirrors the family's journey from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the rise and fall of the Detroit auto industry. Major Characters Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Pdf