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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Long before the transformation of biological identity emerged as a specialty of medical practitioners, it served as a focal point for myths and legends. It is fitting that the key characters in Jeffrey Eugendies' Middlesex are of Greek origin, because so are many of the most memorable traditions of body mashups—whether the Minotaur, the Chimera, the Har…

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