Middlesex Condition:Like New Born in 1919

Born in 1919

Alex Haley wrote the Pulitzer-Prize winning book "Roots"

A Church Times Book of the Year

It reflects her spiritual growth against the backdrop of a war-torn Vietnam

Middlesex Condition:Like New Born in 1919A 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