![]() ![]() Our Book Club is open to all current and former students and staff of Loughborough University. LU Arts staff do not read the novels in advance of them being chosen by our Book Club. Please note that content notes are based on information available online. Growing up in ‘70s Michigan, Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America.Ĭontent note: this book contains themes of gender identity, the nature vs nurture debate and rebirth. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. ![]()
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