Middlesex Jami and an insightful and thought-provoking

and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky

and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works

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Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago

Middlesex Jami and an insightful and thought-provokingA dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them along