{"id":335,"date":"2009-08-04T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=335"},"modified":"2009-08-04T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:24:00","slug":"middlesex-by-jeffrey-eugenides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/08\/middlesex-by-jeffrey-eugenides.html","title":{"rendered":"Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312427735\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Middlesex<\/a> is a richly detailed novel on a unique subject.  There can&#8217;t have been a lot of background information on late-discovered hermaphroditism for the author to research to arrive at this level of apparent authenticity.  Greek heritage provides a richly painted background canvas against which Callie&#8217;s odd story unfolds at just the right pace.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to quibble with the book, I would say that the story got less interesting once Callie&#8217;s true gender was discovered, which is when the author really had to get into the head of someone unexpectedly changing genders.  I&#8217;m not sure he captured how a real person would react, but what do I know?  Callie was a girl who never questioned being a girl aside from her attraction to other girls.  Sounds more like a lesbian than a man in a woman&#8217;s body.  It might have been interesting to see it play out that way, though perhaps also not true to a real life scenario.  From what I&#8217;ve read, boys raised as girls usually have very strong boy feelings.  If you start with the wrong premise, perhaps there&#8217;s no right place to end up.<\/p>\n<p>Quibble aside, this is fiction and it was enjoyable fiction on many levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middlesex is a richly detailed novel on a unique subject. There can&#8217;t have been a lot of background information on late-discovered hermaphroditism for the author to research to arrive at this level of apparent authenticity. Greek heritage provides a richly painted background canvas against which Callie&#8217;s odd story unfolds at just the right pace. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}