The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

Category: Contemporary, Literature, Teen & Young Adult
Language: English
Keywords: 1970 Coming of Age Depression Family Relationships

Written by Jeffrey Eugenides
Read by Nick Landrum
Format: M4B
Unabridged

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. The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life