Middlesex: #4: B

Dear Author,

I am increasingly drawn into your novel, Middlesex. At first I was having a hard time reading and getting into your piece but as I forced myself to read on, I became bound to it. I just finished reading about when Desdemona just gave birth to her child, and the speaker’s father. I thought this following quote was so shocking. “One out of every two thousand babies is born with ambiguous genitalia. In the United State, with a population of two hundred and seventy-five million, that comes to one hundred and thirty-seven thousand intersexuals alive today.” (106) I never though that I just America we had so many people born with ambiguous genitalia, I can not imagine the depression that someone would feel to find out that they were not who they thought they were. Another quote that I drew a liking to was when Lefty finds out that his sister and wife is pregnant. ‘“You liked the pageant?” “It’s not that.” “What is it?” Desdemona looked into her husband’s eyes. But it was Sourmelina who explained it all. “Your wife and I?” she said in plain English. “ We’re both knocked up.”(105) I would think that it would be very odd knowing that not only that you had intercourse with and married your brother, but also that from that intercourse came a child. I hope you later show how the whole situation went down when Desdemona and Lefty’s child found out that his parents were brother and sister.

Thanks much!