Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

Silver spoon -- Matchmaking -- Immodest proposal -- Silk road -- Henry Ford's -- English-language melting pot -- Minotaurs -- Marriage on ice -- Tricknology -- Clarinet serenade -- News of the world -- Ex ovo omnia -- Home movies -- Opa! -- Middlesex -- Mediterranean diet -- Wolverette -- Waxing lyrical -- Obscure object -- Tiresias in love -- Flesh and blood -- Gun on the wall -- Oracular vulva -- Looking myself up in Webster's -- Go west, young man -- Gender dysphoria in San Francisco -- Hermaphroditus -- Air-ride -- Last stop.