This novel covers the time period of three generations. It is a work of fiction but comes off as an autobiography. The narrator, is of the youngest generation, and grew up in Detroit but tells the story as an adult living in Austria. The narrator's parents also grew up in Detroit. The first generation in this novel came from a very small village in Asia Minor and makes their way to Detroit in an attempt to escape the Pontic Greek Genocide in the 1920s.
[...] Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: A review Reason, Type, and Setting This novel covers the time period of three generations. It is a work of fiction but comes off as an autobiography. The narrator, is of the youngest generation, and grew up in Detroit but tells the story as an adult living in Austria. The narrator's parents also grew up in Detroit. The first generation in this novel came from a very small village in Asia Minor and makes their way to Detroit in an attempt to escape the Pontic Greek Genocide in the 1920s. [...]
[...] Once she has one child, she is determined not to get pregnant again (prompted by one of her only legitimate concerns, that she give birth to a deformed child) and so refuses to ever have sex with her husband again. As the years go on, Lefty and Desdemona, who were once inseparable, begin to drift apart. Lefty throws himself into his work so that he may support his family and Desdemona eventually does the same. The house is now divided into the men's parlor and the woman's room whenever Lefty has company over. [...]
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