Read this after the Virgin Suicides. The amount of detail was incredible. I learned more about Detroit from this book than I did about the life of a hermaphrodite! 
 A wonderfully duplicitous way of describing one person's struggle amidst the struggle of a family, a city and a nation. It made Cal/Calliope's struggle with being a hermaphrodite seem both larger than life and completely irrelevant. 
 Similar in style & tone to We Were the Mulvaney's by Joyce Carol Oates.