Book Lover's Reading Group: next book 'Middlesex'

Lot's of good discussion on 'Rain of Gold' last Tuesday night. We made some comparision to the drug trafficing of today and the prohition and bootlegging of yesterday and how some use that to change their circumstances in life. There was a lot discussion about what forces come togather to cause people to leave the country they love and move to a foreign land. We see it happening all the time here and abroad even today. We each loved the mothers for different reasons. They were such strong women to bring their families through the terrible conditions they found themselves in. And we discussed the things they had to eat sometimes on their road to America. It was a truly enlightening experience to travel with them through their lives.
Next month our meeting is April 14th, the book we are reading is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. We like to read a variety of books and I believe this is classified as being something none of us would ordinarily read. When I told my daughter what we were reading she was surprised. "Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three gereations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic."
We sometimes get on themes without meaning too and this is another family adventure and migration to America but with a different look and an outcome that is astonishing. I believe we will have a lot of discussion regarding the characters and the events in the book. It is completely fictional where as our last book was based on the history of an actual family. It certainly won't be boring. I hope you will join us. I do have one copy of the book in the store if you are interested.