Middlesex Jeffery Eugendies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was the June pick for Oprah’s Book Club. The story, which you really should read, follows the course of a genetic mutation as it is passed down through three generations of the Stephanides family, emerging finally in their young daughter Calliope, born a hermaphrodite but raised a girl until puberty, when complications arise.

On the Book Club Web site, you can find an introduction to the book, an in-depth bio of Eugenides — who is also well known for his novel, The Virgin Suicides, which Sofia Coppola turned into a movie of the same name in 2003 — and a discussion of nature vs. nurture, which is actually fairly interesting.

I know you are bored at work reading this, so why not check it out?