Middlesex

Transported from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family witness its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving into the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. 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. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.