An immigrant in this novel is hired by Sister Wanda to make silk for the Nation of Islam.
An immigrant in this novel is hired by Sister Wanda to make silk for the Nation of Islam. Another character in this novel is nicknamed "Chapter Eleven" for bankrupting his father's chain Hercules Hot Dogs. The protagonist of this novel runs away from Dr. Luce's clinic to San Francisco and becomes a burlesque dancer at the Sixty-Niners. It was inspired by the memoirs of Herculine Barbin, and is narrated by a character who falls in love with a woman nicknamed the Obscure Object. Its first section details the incestuous relationship between Desdemona and Lefty, who move in with Lina Zizmo after escaping the 1922 fire of Smyrna and moving to Detroit. The protagonist of this novel is born with a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, and is raised as a girl until turning fourteen. For 10 points, name this 2002 novel about the hermaphrodite Cal Stephanides, written by Jeffrey Eugenides.
An immigrant in this novel is hired by Sister Wanda to make silk for the Nation of Islam.
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