The Virgin Suicides

About The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (1993) is narrated by a group of neighborhood men who, twenty years later, are still trying to understand why the five Lisbon sisters all killed themselves within a single year of their suburban Michigan adolescence. A meditation on desire, memory, and the way female interiority resists male understanding. Adapted into a celebrated 1999 film by Sofia Coppola.