The Virgin Suicides

By Jeffrey Eugenides

Five sisters' tragic fate haunts a suburban neighborhood, unraveling a mystery of love and despair.

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243 pages· 65,469 words

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In a quiet Detroit suburb, the enigmatic Lisbon sisters captivate neighborhood boys with their beauty and mystery. As each sister tragically ends her life, the boys become obsessed with uncovering the truth behind the family's sorrow. This haunting tale of adolescent longing and suburban secrets explores the depths of love and despair, leaving readers questioning the boundaries of obsession and the nature of tragedy.

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The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New Introduction by Emma ClineAdapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters–beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys–commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time.

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