my favorite book that i ve read lately is middlesex.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. The book is a bestseller, with more than four\u00a0million copies sold since its publication. Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides' life and observations of his Greek heritage. It is not an autobiography; unlike the protagonist, Eugenides is not intersex. The author decided to write \"Middlesex\" after he read the 1980\u00a0memoir \"\" and was dissatisfied with its discussion of intersex anatomy and emotions. Primarily a coming-of-age story (\"Bildungsroman\") and family saga, the novel chronicles the effect of a mutated gene on three generations of a Greek family, causing momentous changes in the protagonist's life. According to scholars, the novel's main themes are nature versus nurture, rebirth, and the differing experiences of what society constructs as polar opposites\u2014such as those found between men and women. It discusses the pursuit of the American Dream and explores gender identity. The novel contains many allusions to Greek mythology, including creatures such as the Minotaur, half-man and half-bull, and the Chimera, a monster composed of various animal parts. Narrator and protagonist Cal Stephanides (initially called \"Callie\") is an intersex man of Greek descent with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, which causes him to have certain feminine traits.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I just read Middlesex. It's my favourite book that I've read lately. It's no wonder it sold 4 million copies!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow thats quite a few. Thats cool."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's so good. It won a Pulitzer Prize"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh really how old is it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It came out in 2002, so it's 16 years old."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow thats not too old at all."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Nope! It has a pretty modern topic. It's about an intersex man who has feminine traits because of a gene mutation "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh thats quite a hot topic type thing nowadays."}]