Paperback, 529 pages
English language
Published 2002 by Picador.
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Subjects
- Greek Americans -- Fiction.
- Gender identity -- Fiction.
- Hermaphroditism -- Fiction.
- Teenagers -- Fiction.
- Grosse Pointe (Mich.) -- Fiction.
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.