Characters in Middlesex

Supporting characters

• Milton Stephanides

  Cal's father, who runs the family's hot dog restaurant chain and later moves the family to Grosse Pointe.

• Tessie Stephanides

  Cal's mother and Milton's second cousin.

• Desdemona Stephanides

  Cal's grandmother, who emigrated from a village in Asia Minor with her brother Lefty and carries the family's recessive gene.

• Eleutherios Stephanides

• Sourmelina Zizmo

• Miltiades Stephanides

• Theodora Stephanides

• Chapter Eleven

• The Obscure Object

• James Zizmo

• Michael Antoniou