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  • About my hometown: Detroit/Grosse Pointe. The descriptions of familiar places felt exactly right.

    

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  • "In the eighteenth row my grandmother gave her critical opinion. 'It's lke the paintings in the museum,' she said. 'Just an excuse to show people with no clothes.'"

    "All of a sudden American wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was bout ... Continue

    "In the eighteenth row my grandmother gave her critical opinion. 'It's lke the paintings in the museum,' she said. 'Just an excuse to show people with no clothes.'"

    "All of a sudden American wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was bout something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!"

    "Shakes your hand while he pisses in your pocket"

    "The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the Bombyx mori, no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have dgenerated, and the adults do not fly'"

    

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  • Better than "The Virgin Suicides," although Eugenides's prose can occasionally be tiresome.

    

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  • My thoughts

  • This beautifully written book is more than a story of a hermaphrodite. It is a rich family history interwoven with the history of Greek immigrants, as well as a history of life in the Detroit area from the early auto industry through the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. I liked all the characters ... Continue

    This beautifully written book is more than a story of a hermaphrodite. It is a rich family history interwoven with the history of Greek immigrants, as well as a history of life in the Detroit area from the early auto industry through the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. I liked all the characters from the grandparents Desdemona and Lefty through the narrator, Cal/Callie.

    

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  • This book needs more than 4 stars.

    

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