Middlesex Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (1999) commandant of the Cairo police

commandant of the Cairo police force

In the space of ten years

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but have been arranged to be read as a totality and in sequence

and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted

Middlesex Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (1999) commandant of the Cairo policeI was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August 1974. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City,