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Middlesex novel review5/28/2023 ![]() Chapter Eleven finds it amid mothballs and birdcages and runs back downstairs. She instructs Chapter Eleven Stephanides, Cal's older brother, to go into the attic where she and Lefty live and retrieve the silkworm box from under her bed. He embarks upon the story of his gender prediction by his grandmother, Desdemona Stephanides.ĭesdemona, Cal's grandmother who immigrated to America from Greece with her brother Eleutherios "Lefty" Stephanides, calls the family together to predict the gender of her daughter in law Tessie's unborn child. Cal calls upon the Greek muses to help him tell his story of self-discovery, birth, and family history. (S)he is a 5-Alpha-Reductase pseudohermaphrodite, which he discovered when he was sixteen. ![]() ![]() Cal was born a girl in January of 1960 in Detroit, Michigan to a Greek-American family. Middlesex opens with Cal Stephanides (also known as Calliope) introducing herself/himself. ![]()
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