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Middlesex
By Jeffrey Eugenides
544 pages; Picador
Available at: Amazon.com | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound
"I loved learning about a culture that was unfamiliar to me," Johansson says of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A portrait of a Greek-American family, it is also a coming-of-age story about a hermaphrodite initially raised as a girl. "It's really about finding yourself in a traditional world that doesn't allow much room to grow."
— As told to Karen Holt
Printed from Oprah.com on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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