Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

I read this book quite a while ago, probably when it first came out, so when my husband started reading it, I wanted to read it again. I remember having liked it so much! And I still liked it every bit as much as the first time I read it. And it's so relevant - even more so now?

The book grabs you with the first line:  "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."

This is a coming of age story more than anything else and a saga of a Greek family "coming to America." I was reading it as Donald Trump was inaugurated, was closing the doors to Muslim  immigrants and generally, trying to make our country something different than it was when this family came over.

I loved the book the second time and will love it the third time - if I read it again.