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Jeffrey Eugenides’s debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993
. The novel is narrated by a group of boys who are obsessed with the five Lisbon sisters, beautiful and enigmatic young women who all commit suicide within the span of a year. The Virgin Suicides is a coming-of-age novel that meditates on the nature of memory and the power of mythmaking through the grief-filled exploration of the lives and deaths of the Lisbon sisters. The Virgin Suicides was adapted into a film directed by Sophia Coppola in 1999.Read the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Trip Fontaine, and explanations of important quotes from The Virgin Suicides.
