I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

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