I was born twice first as a baby girl on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; & then again as a teenage boy in an emergency room near Petoskey Michigan in August of l 974' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides & her truly unique family secret born on the slopes of Mount Olympus & passed on through three generations 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 Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction