Middlesex

Middlesex is not a book about Middlesex, Pennsylvania (like Wesley originally thought!) but, instead, should be taken much more literally. The narrator is a hermaphrodite thus, stuck somewhere between male and female thus a "middlesex." It's a really interesting and twisted tale. So far I'm about a third of the way into it and it's basically the story of his grandparents (who were brother and sister) and how he came to possess his strange mutation on his fifth chromosome that made him live the first 12 years of his life as Callie, a little girl, but then become Cal, a male. Bizaare, eh? Oh! I believe the author of this book, Jeffrey Eugenides, also wrote The Virgin Suicides.