Jeffrey Eugenides talks to the Guardian Book Club about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Middlesex, which traces the history of an intersex man, Cal – born Callie – back through three generations of his family.
Eugenides explains the stories and encounters that inspired him to take on the subject of genetic mutation. He also explains why it was important to root Cal's story in his own life, so that – without being autobiographical – it reflects his own history as the son of a Greek immigrant family which settled in Detroit.
