Eugenides' 1993 novel

Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). "Middlesex" received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Eugenides was born in Detroit, to a father of Greek descent and a mother of English and Irish ancestry.

Eugenides' 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, has been translated into 34 languages. In 1999, the novel adapted acclaimed film by critically. The novel tells the story of the suicide, life and death of five sisters living here, as well as boys watch them in the neighborhood obsessive. In 2017, Eugenides published "Fresh Complaint", a collection of short stories written between 1988 and 2017

After a nine-year pause, Eugenides published his third novel, The Marriage Plot. The novel follows three young adults a love triangle, as they graduate from Brown University and establish themselves in the world.

His 2002 novel, Middlesex receive many price. This novel following the life and self-discovery of Calliope Stephanides, or later, Cal, an intersex person raised a girl, but genetically a boy, Middlesex also mainly with the Greek-American immigrant experience in the United States, the rise and fall of Detroit, and explores the experience of an intersex person in the U.S.A.

Middlesex also explores themes of nature versus nurture, rebirth, and the differing ways men and women experience society. It also explores themes of the American Dream and is one of the most in-depth and acclaimed novels to look at concepts of gender identity.

The novel include: themes of rebirth, ethnic identity, gender, hybridity, monstrosity, free will and destiny, and classical Greek motifs, experimenting with narrative structure and narrative voice. Nothing in Middlesex is ever straightforward or black and white.

Several of Jeffrey Eugenides' works are set in Detroit, Michigan, his hometown. Middlesex in particular has many autobiographical elements, including the general arc of the Stephanides family's life, the suburb they move to etcs. Middlesex is not, however, an autobiography.