Word: pseudohermaphoroditeã
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...Middlesex” is Cal’s novel: a family history tracking the recessive gene mutation that accounts for his troubling condition as “a male pseudohermaphorodite??genetically male, but appearing otherwise.” He starts in Turkey: siblings Desdemona and Lefty flee that country’s conflict with Greece to start anew in America as husband and wife. In Detroit, cousins Milton and Tessie fall in love and become engaged amidst the turmoil of the Second World War. Calliope, their daughter—born and raised as a girl—learns...
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