Jeffrey Eugenides, from Middlesex
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You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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Ecstasy. From the Greek Ekstasis. Meaning not what you think. Meaning not euphoria or sexual climax or even happiness. Meaning, literally: a state of displacement, of being driven out of one’s senses.
Jeffrey Eugenides, from 'Middlesex'
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Character, book, and author names under the cut
Hua Cheng- Heaven Official's Blessing / Tian Guan Ci Fu by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Cal Stephanides- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Simon Torquill- October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire
Alex Fierro-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan
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Behind the scenes of The Virgin Suicides (1999) dir. by Sofia Coppola 🎀🐇🪽
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in the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life. - jeffrey eugenides
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex tells 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 and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
Mod opinion: I've read this book for a college course on trans stories and I didn't really like it (the other book we read in its entirety for the course was stone butch blues though, so it had tough competition, but I really did not enjoy middlesex because it treats the intersex character horribly). Also note that this book is heavily criticised by intersex activist for its interphobia and fetishization of intersex bodies.
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Jeffrey Eugenides, from The Marriage Plot
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She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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