"Middlesex" by Jeffery Eugenides is the book to be discussed by the Reading PALS at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 30, at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.

It is an epic novel that spans three generations and two continents. While growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, Calliope Stephanides discovers that, in addition to the troubles of adolescence, she has the body and genes of a boy although she is being raised as a girl.

Preregistration is not required and drop-ins are welcome.

For more information, go to www.nols.org and click on "Events" and "Port Angeles," call 417-8528 or

e-mail kowen@nols.org.