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The Virgin Suicides was my first Jeffrey Eugenides. I've seen the movie (though it has been awhile) but I'd never gotten around to reading it. I saw Eugenides at Wordstock this year in Portland, and he got asked lots of questions about this book. It piqued my interest and I figured it was time to get around to reading it.
The Virgin Suicides is about the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, from the perspective of neighborhood boys. After the youngest daughter, Cecilia, commits suicide, the famil ...more
The Virgin Suicides is about the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, from the perspective of neighborhood boys. After the youngest daughter, Cecilia, commits suicide, the famil ...more
The five Lisbon sisters were almost worshipped by their entire neighborhood. Nonetheless, they all committed suicide within a year. Twenty years later, the boys who once had a crush on them try to make sense of their deaths.
This book sounded really promising. But I had problems to connect with the story and the narrators. The novel is written from a first plural perspective. Since the boys didn’t have contact with the sisters regularly, their memories are based on rumors and on minor details. Th ...more
This book sounded really promising. But I had problems to connect with the story and the narrators. The novel is written from a first plural perspective. Since the boys didn’t have contact with the sisters regularly, their memories are based on rumors and on minor details. Th ...more
i loved how the story unfolded yet i felt rejected by how quickly and abruptly it ended. I wish the author had written 10 more pages. None the less a good read.
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