2003 Pulitzer Prize winner: "Middlesex": Compelling, intriguing

I read "Middlesex," the 2003 Pulitzer Price winner by Jeffrey Eugenides a few years ago. I don't know if I read it because it won. But I'm sure I read it for the story line (plot):

From the Pulitzer Prize Description:

"In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond clasmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.... Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire."

The book almost seems like a parable or a fable. Such a wonderful read. Not like any book I've ever read before.

I've always wondered what it was like to have this huge change happen to you and then bam you have to deal with it. I mean, not many of us are going to realize we're the wrong sex in our lifetimes. What's it like to deal with that? What do you do? How do you act? Are all your relationships totally botched up?

I wanted to know, so I read. He's a great writer with a sympathetic main character and a heartfelt ending.