Tell us your thoughts on Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides!
Or answer our discussion questions:
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- What word or term do you think sums up what this book is about?
- What “complicated hybrid emotion” would you want to create a word for?
- What does the book as a whole say about the concept of love? Do we choose love or is love chosen by us?
- Middlesex refers quite a bit to fortune telling, soothsaying, and superstitions. Do any such rituals or beliefs play a role in your own life?
- Why is Cal’s brother called Chapter 11?
- What do you think of Cal as narrator? Even from within his primordial egg? Did you find the book’s narrative style helpful or confusing?
I am really looking forward to discussing this book!
Q 1 – Belonging. To me it seems to be all about trying to find that feeling that you can be yourself and that people see you the way you actually are.
B: How about a word for the disappointment felt when you realize someone has finished the food you’ve been looking forward to having?
Or maybe,
Simultaneously loving and hating your child/pet when they’ve done something terrible but look so adorable.