![]() ![]() It found enthusiastic fans in both young adults and old. Eugenides draws on his experience growing up in suburban Detroit to locate the tragic events in the novel in the larger story of the decline and fall of the American dream of happy families, comfortable and prosperous middle-class communities, and children who are safe and cared for. Part coming-of-age story, part memoir, and part tragedy, The Virgin Suicides shows us how a community watches while a troubled family self-destructs. Pretty good, according to the literary world. How's that for the plot of a debut novel? And a group of teenage boys, who've always been obsessed with the mysterious and doomed girls, spend the rest of their lives trying to figure out why. ![]() Over the course of a year in the 1970s, to the horror of their family, friends and neighbors, all five girls eventually kill themselves. The sisters, held like prisoners in the house by a domineering, repressive mother, gradually waste away from the isolation and hopelessness. ![]() But the Lisbon sisters take teenaged torment to the next level in Jeffrey Eugenides' 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides. Just ask teen drama queens like Bella Swan and Elsa. ![]()
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