Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy,in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

This is a very enjoyable, touching book. The writing is great and the narrator's voice is humorous, painful and beautiful. The story is very original and thought provocking; some scenes are really emotional for the reader, but Eugenides writes it in a no-big-deal way. What I mean is, the writing doesn't force you to think something, but the scene on itself does. The sentences are sometimes so beautiful and evocative that they become breathtaking.The burning of Smyrnas and all the begginig is very interesting, but the story grows better when we get to Cal's life. It's a great reading.