Literary places in Detroit

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

Three generations of a Greek American family, told by Cal Stephanides, run from a burning city on the Aegean to the assembly lines and streets of Detroit. The map holds the east-side Greek quarter where the grandparents land, the boulevard where the city caught fire in 1967, and the quiet modernist house out in Grosse Pointe where the family finally lands.

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