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Book Résumé Jeffrey Eugenides: Calliope’s friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent’s desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. “In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls’ school in Grosse Pointe, […]