Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist, author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot.

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Middlesex.

The available review praises Middlesex for its poetic handling of identity, family history and immigration. The narrator Calliope/Cal and the Stephanides family are highlighted as believable and moving. The book is described as elegiac, tender and socially observant.

For:Readers of literary fiction interested in identity, immigrant family sagas and contemporary American novels.