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1) Middlesex
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Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides' novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of an immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there's a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is an hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back...
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""Do I have to end my life to end my childhood?" Joshua Royalton, the irresistibly eccentric 22-year-old narrator of The Big Book of Misunderstanding, asks himself this question with an open pill bottle in his trembling hand. To come up with his answer, Josh leads readers on a darkly funny jaunt through the collective adolescence of his whole family. The Royaltons are "like Norman Rockwell run amok, simultaneously wholesome and perverse."--BOOK JACKET....
6) What we lost
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Dale Peck Sr. grew up in a poverty-stricken home with an abusive mother and alcoholic father, but after finding love and contentment at his uncle's farm, his mother demands his return and makes him choose between his family and his future.