The Nation, October 14th, 2002
MIDDLESEX. By Jeffrey Eugenides. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 529 pp. $27.
In 1967 the world-renowned if somewhat Dickensianly named sexologist John Money was offered a case he couldn't refuse. A boy, not yet 18 months old, had lost his penis in a horribly botched circumcision. The boy's parents had seen Money on television preaching the wonders of sex reassignment--was there anything he could do for their son? Money obliged: "Joan," as she would come to be called in the scientific literature, was outfitted with a makeshift vagina and began to be raised as a girl. Science was thrilled; as Cal (...
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