Middlesex Tasmania even as she’s counting down

even as she’s counting down the days until graduation

into what were perceived as deadly enemies

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But when King Henry is overthrown

Middlesex Tasmania even as she’s counting downI was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor