And the next OBC title has been announced. This time it's a less unusual selection: Jeffrey Eugenides' perrennial book club favorite Middlesex. It's the story of Calliope and her discovery that she's in fact a hermaphrodite. (I'm not giving anything away; the book's first line is "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.").--David E
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
And the Winner Is....
And the next OBC title has been announced. This time it's a less unusual selection: Jeffrey Eugenides' perrennial book club favorite Middlesex. It's the story of Calliope and her discovery that she's in fact a hermaphrodite. (I'm not giving anything away; the book's first line is "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.").--David E
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