Eugenides sweeping immigrant family saga is a testament to what has created America. I want to call the Eugenides and Winter books the epitome of American and Canadian story-telling. She softens the topic, tackling it from a more intimate point of view while bringing in the landscape of a small, hunting and trapping community in Labrador to help convey the sense of isolation Wayne/Annabel experiences as he embarks on a journey of self determination. Eugenides tackles the topic by anchoring it in a sweeping family saga, with a dark humour perspective and a fair bit of detailed scientific facts thrown into the mix. The two books couldn't be further apart, IMO, in their delivery of the topic. Both tackle the rather sensitive topic of intersexuality, which has also been called hermaphroditism. This review is going to be more of a compare-contrast of and Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, a book I read earlier this year.
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