The Virgin Suicides Edit

(1993)  Book | Suicide

( fr ) The Virgin Suicides tells the story of the five Lisbon sisters and the effects of their suicides on their small suburban community. Jeffrey Eugenides explores the heady territory of adolescent sexuality through the collective narrative voice of the young boys, now men, who fell under the sisters? spell. As they look back with a mixture of humour, melancholy and wistful yearning they remain haunted by questions still unanswered after twenty years.