As Eliot's Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant, touches upon sexuality and gender issues, a different Mr. Eugenides, Jeffrey Eugenides, the author known for The Virgin Suicides, does also. In Eugenides' novel Middlesex Cal Stephanides (formerly Calliope) has undergone a female to male transformation (well, actually Cal is described as a 5-alpha-reductase pseudohermaphrodite.) Eugenides also weaves in myth and a flight from Smyrna in his novel.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York. 2002. 532 pages. ISBN: 0-374-19969-8 (hardbound)
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