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Michael Antoniou (“Father Mike”)
Zoë is Father Mike’s wife, Lefty and Desdemona’s second child, Milton’s sister, and Tessie’s cousin. She is not a particularly prominent character in the novel and is described as a “wallflower,” although Cal notes that he always liked her. She comes to regret marrying Father Mike and detests the life of a priest’s wife. When Father Mike is arrested for posing as a kidnapper and attempting to rob Milton, Zoë divorces him and moves to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, with Tessie.
Zoë Antoniou (“Aunt Zo”) Quotes in Middlesex
The Middlesex quotes below are all either spoken by Zoë Antoniou (“Aunt Zo”) or refer to Zoë Antoniou (“Aunt Zo”). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 2: Henry Ford’s English-Language Melting Pot
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My grandparents had every reason to believe that Sourmelina would keep their secret. She’d come to America with a secret of her own, a secret that would be guarded by our family until Sourmelina died in 1979, whereupon, like everyone’s secrets, it was posthumously declassified, so that people began to speak of “Sourmelina’s girlfriends.” A secret kept, in other words, only by the loosest definition, so that now—as I get ready to leak the information myself—I feel only a sight twinge of filial guilt.
Sourmelina’s secret (as Aunt Zo put it): “Lina was one of those women they named the island after.”
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Zoë Antoniou (“Aunt Zo”) Quotes in Middlesex
The Middlesex quotes below are all either spoken by Zoë Antoniou (“Aunt Zo”) or refer to Zoë Antoniou (“Aunt Zo”). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 2: Henry Ford’s English-Language Melting Pot
Quotes
My grandparents had every reason to believe that Sourmelina would keep their secret. She’d come to America with a secret of her own, a secret that would be guarded by our family until Sourmelina died in 1979, whereupon, like everyone’s secrets, it was posthumously declassified, so that people began to speak of “Sourmelina’s girlfriends.” A secret kept, in other words, only by the loosest definition, so that now—as I get ready to leak the information myself—I feel only a sight twinge of filial guilt.
Sourmelina’s secret (as Aunt Zo put it): “Lina was one of those women they named the island after.”
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