The writing is all over the place and the story extremely superficial. No matter how hard I tried I could not find any insightful passages or hidden metaphors. Yes, the main character is a hermaphrodite. So? It's not like his/her identity is present as a continuing red thread in the whole "epic family saga" so I wouldn't be that shocked about it. Very very hollow and the ending was flat (I'm surprised I decided to go that far). Well, maybe that was a logical continuance after a flat family story.