The Namesake

The Namesake

Rating:  The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri. Houghton Mifflin Company (2004), 291 pages. This is a very well-written book in which nothing happens. Now, I have no gripe against a quiet book in which the point is merely to appreciate its evocative and...
Middlesex

Middlesex

(This review first appeared in November 2005) Rating:  Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002), 530 pages. Middlesex is an original and exceptionally well-written book about a hermaphrodite believed to be female at birth who was...