Middlesex Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (1999) In the space of ten

In the space of ten years

and their six-year-old son

but have been arranged to be read as a totality and in sequence

Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity

But is this what he wants

Middlesex Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (1999) In the space of tenI was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August 1974. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City,