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A modern masterpiece of suburban gothic, The Virgin Suicides is the haunting debut novel that launched Jeffrey Eugenides’ career. Set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, during the 1970s, it tells the story of the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and doomed—as seen through the eyes of a group of neighborhood boys who remain obsessed with them long into adulthood.
The narrative is famously written in the collective “we,” acting as a tragic investigative report compiled by these boys decades after the sisters took their own lives. It isn’t just a story about death; it is a lush, atmospheric exploration of the mystery of the “other,” the suffocating nature of a strict religious upbringing, and the decay of the American Dream in the fading light of the 1970s.
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