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And, as suggested by the title, he's not writing just any female character. For his second, Middlesex, he masterfully inhabited the mind of a child born female who later transitions to being a man.Įugenides's third and latest novel, The Marriage Plot, arguably represents his most ambitious approach to gender yet: Rather than describing young women from the point of view of a collective male narrator, as he did in The Virgin Suicides, or creating an intersex protagonist, as he did in Middlesex, he writes from the point of view of a woman, Madeleine. In his first novel, The Virgin Suicides, he drew the five Lisbon sisters as believable archetypes (Cecilia the loner, promiscuous Lux, and so on) without turning them into caricatures. Jeffrey Eugenides knows how to write women.
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