Middlesex is one of those very few huge ambitious tomes that really earns it, an epic story shot through with a magical realism that sits deliciously close to the real, a true american novel that I hope we’ll never forget.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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