"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Bless Oprah, she has done it again. "Middlesex" is the title of the book she chose for her Book Club a couple of weeks ago. With over 500 pages, it is her summer reading selection. If you're a sometime reader, than 500-plus pages can be intimidating. If you're an all-the-time reader, then you don't concern yourself with page numbers.

But getting back to the book....... wonderful, fabulous, one of the best Oprah book selections yet. Everything good about reading is in this story, and it's why I love to read. There is so much history tossed into this novel that the story is more powerful than I can possibly describe. And I don't want to describe it because I don't want to give anything away. The book is filled with Greeks, Turks, fires, families, boats crossing the Atlantic heading towards Ellis Island.... then more Greeks, more Turks, more with fires and families, and then this book gives you such a complete understanding about the city of Detroit. The good, the bad, the ugly, and everything inbetween.

"Middlesex" was given the Pulitzer Prize. Read this book. Just read it.