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The Virgin Suicides

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First published: 1993
Pages: 169

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Neighborhood boys look back on the Lisbon sisters, whose family life becomes a source of fascination and speculation in suburban Michigan. The daughters grow up under protective Catholic parents, while a family tragedy draws the community's attention closer. Jeffrey Eugenides's novel examines adolescence, memory and the distance between observing other people and understanding them.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Eugenides grew up in Detroit in a Greek American family, and his 1993 debut watches five sisters in a Michigan suburb through the eyes of the neighbourhood boys who narrate the whole thing decades afterwards without ever having understood it. Sofia Coppola filmed it in 1999.