Middlesex

By Jeffery Eugenides. Its a story about Cal Stephanides. A 40 year old man who was born a girl, who grew up in a Greek American family.

The story of Cal or Calliope does not start with her birth, it starts in Greece with the marriage of his grandparents, the burning down of their village, their emigration to America. Her story waits in the wings while her parents are born, waits till they grow up and fall in love and marry. Her story doesnt start until her brother is born and her parents yearn for a girl child. She is born a girl, but at puberty there is something more shocking waiting for her.

I dont know what i liked the best in this, the story that never stops or the very different topic or the feeling that you have to find out what happens to Cal in the end. At the end of the book, you are not bothered if Cal is a boy or a girl, you just want him to be happy.

An amazing book that is very hard to put down. Oprah recommends and i second :)