Middlesex hardcover novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

529 page hardcover novel by the author of The Virgin Suicides, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Jeffrey Eugenides. "A big, affectionate, and often hilarious book...[Middlesex] begins as a generous. tragicomic family chronicle of immigration and assimilation, becomes along the way a social novel about Detroit...and incorporates a heartbreaking tale of growing up awkward and lonely in 70's suburbia. " -Andrew O'Hehir, SALON.COM