An excellent book, another in the list of Pulitzer prize winners I am reading. It's told in first person by a hermaphrodite, raised as a girl for the first fourteen years of her life. When she reaches puberty she finds out the truth about herself and decides to continue her life as a man.
It goes all the way back to the narrator's grandparents, which I think is the strongest part of the novel, and works its way forward through the parents and finally to the narrator. Worthy of being called a Greek Epic!
There were a couple of plot twists that left me shaking my head as implausible, but I was so happy to actually have plot in a Pulitzer that I didn't really mind.
More distracting were the "asides", the parenthetical expressions, sprinkled throughout the book. It's author intrusion, and got on my bad side. It seems more prevalent in the later sections of the book.
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