Middlesex jeffrey eugenides review6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s two parts are not explicitly partitioned, but rather, like Cal’s genders, each leaks into and affects the other. Some reviewers have noted that the book’s amalgam of genres reflects the split nature of the narrator’s body, and Eugenides confirmed this intention in an interview in BOMB Magazine, saying, "The book, like its hermaphroditic narrator, was meant to be a hybrid." Such facile symmetry, however, often feels like an excuse for the novel’s lack of cohesion. But many have seemed blinded to-or reluctant to acknowledge-the book’s major failures, perhaps due to their leftover reverence for The Virgin Suicides, or out of deference to the love and effort the author clearly invested in the project. Reviewers have rightly praised the generosity and big-heartedness of the novel. The critical reception to the book has been largely warm. ![]()
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