The Virgin Suicides

What a book. Wow. This book was beautifully and exquisitely written. Eugenides has a real talent for writing some incredible sentences and passages that have stayed with me long after finishing the story. This book is a story that is fundamentally deeply disturbing and morbid and I rather guiltily devoured it. It was intense and left me fascinated and enamoured by it. The Lisbon girls have an enrapturing quality that left me transfixed and obsessed with them just like the boys within the plot. I felt the story was so intriguing that it's still stayed with me. This book beautifully and painfully exposes familial suicide in 1970s Michigan. It's a phenomenal story that I simply adored.