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Waiting for my actual book on hold at the Troy Public Library for about 2 weeks, I actually ended up reading a completely different book than what I had first chosen. I was supposed to read “The Man in the High Castle,” a dystopian book about a post-WW2 society where the Nazis won. What I ended up picking from the class library was very different but surprisingly quite similar to a dystopian war novel. I chose to read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, which covers the journey of an intersex individual who grows up in Detroit as the child of Greek immigrants. An unintentional but very interesting choice, I’ve learned a lot from this book about intersex individuals who are widely underrepresented in society as a whole. Applying a psychoanalytic lens to Middlesex, the choices of the main character, Calliope, show a confused yet somehow self-aware individual who is naive and looking to experience new things in order to understand themselves better. Callie feels the primal desire to kiss Clem