USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first half of the novel is about Cal’s family and depicts his grandparents’ migration from Bursa, a city in Asia Minor, to the United States in 1922. It follows their assimilation into U.S. society in Detroit, Michigan, then a booming industrial city.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ancestry, Inheritance, and Fate As an epic family saga depicting multiple generations of a Greek immigrant family to the U.S., Middlesex emphasizes the importance of ancestry and underlines that everyone’s fate is (at least in part) determined by their social and biological inheritance.

Detailed explanation-3: -The house isn’t really called “Middlesex.” Not, at least, in the way “Wuthering Heights” was called “Wuthering Heights.” “Middlesex” is simply the name of the street the Stephanides lived on. Cal refers to the house by its street address in the way people call The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.