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Announcements
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Secret Sisters begins this month! Don't forget to
deliver a little surprise to your Sis'!
- Book Club is currently reading Middlesex by Jeffrey
Eugenides. We will meet to discuss it on July 30th, 7pm.
Check out the editorial review from Amazon.com!
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably
smogless
Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage
boy, in
an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
And so
begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek
American
family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through
time."
The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how
this
41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the
tender
heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides,
whose
elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains
one of
the finest first novels of recent memory.
Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80
years
of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in
a
small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit;
from
the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots;
from the
tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent
love
story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative
is
astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices
convincingly,
spinning this strange and often unsettling story with
intelligence,
insight, and generous amounts of humor: |
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