Title: Virgin suicides, the
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: fiction
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When you see the title you would think you're in for a thriller/horror type of story, but you couldn't be more wrong. It's a very gripping and disturbing story about five teenage sisters who commit suicide. Heavy stuff? Not really. The way the story is told is very open and factual, even funny at times, by one of the boys (now men) who lived in the street and who were intrigued by the Lisbon girls and their lives.

The time the tragedy unravels is the seventies, a time so much change was already going on. Eugenides is a great storyteller, has eye for detail. Once you enter the lives of the Lisbon sisters you get obsessed with them too, just like the boys in the book. Very overpowering.

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