The virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Yet another re-read. While I'm part-way through a number of books I couldn't help but pick this one up and ended up reading the entire book. I read this about two months ago now, before summer had really started but on a very muggy day. The hot, cloying weather complimented this book perfectly. A quick synopsis On the very first page you read of the final Lisbon sister, Mary, taking her life. You know from the very beginning that all five Lisbon sisters have committed suicide, but slowly it is revealed who they were, what various people think occurred and how it's affected them. It's written from the perspective of the collective group of neighbourhood boys, who idolised and isolated them, and who are still looking back for answers twenty years later. They attempt to uncover what really happened, from the time Cecilia's (the youngest "weird" sister) first attempt at suicide, to Mary's, over the period of just over a year. “Dr. Armonson s...
