Published: 2002
Setting: Turkey, Detroit, Michigan
Rating: 3.25 stars, rounded down to 3
*Contains Spoilers*
Calliope is well different than most girls. Not in the sense that she is brought up in a terrible household or that she is not popular or have friends, which she is both. However, Calliope is physically different than girls her age, the main part being she isn't a girl. On the outside she looks just like one, she has a labia, as well as other female anatomy but she also has the male anatomy as well, just inside her. She's by definition, a hermaphrodite.
Overall I thought the book was blah. I liked the history part of it about her grandparents and parents but when it came to her being a whiney teenager I just didn't really care for it. I thought it was amusing however that I knew where about 70% of the places she was talking about were. Things in Detroit haven't changed that much, as I spent much of my childhood there with family.
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