Van Vliet, JenniferCole, Natalie B.2020-05-152020-05-152011-10-01Van Vliet, Jennifer. "The American Family Saga in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom" Oakland Journal 21 (2011). 117-1401529-4005http://hdl.handle.net/10323/7938This essay focuses on two American family sagas from the early twenty-first century, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, both chosen for the diversity of gender constructions and sexual identities of their characters as well as for the “traditional” nature of their focal families.en-USCopyright held by Oakland UniversityBook reviewsFamiliesGenderDiversityArticle