Carolyn Martinez-Class’s Reviews > Middlesex > Status Update

the obscure object

(Forever the bottom.)

my heart, that amphibian, moving that moment between two elements: one, excitement; the other, fear.

I think all the time about this ‘Americans like their presidents to have no more than two vowels’ thing all the time.

Julie Kikuchi is thirty-six. She looks twenty-six. She is short without being small. She is irreverent without being crude. She used to see a therapist but stopped.

Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line.