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This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twentyyear old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughters spectacular demise by selfdefenstration, which inaugurates the year of the suicides. Told from the point of view of their neighborhood boys, the virgin suicides shines light on the boys fantasy of the girls and their obsession. The virgin suicides11 read online free by jeffrey eugenides. The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal the. The virgin suicides is the first novel from jeffrey eugenides, whod win a pulitzer prize for his followup middlesex.
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