Middlesex Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (1999) Pamela is not only a

Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity

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Middlesex Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (1999) Pamela is not only aI was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August 1974. 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 City,