middle aged white dude

I wanted to talk about the fact that the author of Middlesex is Jeffrey Eugenides, a white dude. He obviously did a lot of research for this book, or at least I gather that from the people he thanks (there seemed to be a myriad of authors of publications on intersexedness). However I always get this weird twing when I think about who wrote this book, a seemingly privileged middle aged white guy who went to Brown for his undergrad then Stanford and who now teaches at Princeton. AND of course I CAN judge this guy based on the schools he went to, he ethnicity, and what he looks like (he's bald).

Then I have to take into account that this is a story, a product of fiction. But I think that sometimes things are not that clear cut. Eugenides is himself Greek.

I am reminded of another really good book about personal experience that was written by someone far from who you would expect, Memoirs of a Geisha. And yeah... that's all.

I guess I'm just amazed and horrified and in awe, some how all at the same time.