Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides

It was one of those books I picked up in a book exchange and when I started it I was not quite sure what to expect. The story is about an hermaphrodite, not something you would usually read about. This book takes you back to Greece and to the present day. The layering of family history, tragedy and success is well laid out. Eugenides wrote seamlessly and had a very good style about him. I really got involved and wanted to keep going to see what would happen. The ending did work really well for me. I felt led on and then left hanging. For a very different subject matter though, it was pulled off very well.