I grew up in Florida, but Jeffrey Eugenides’s story of five doomed midwestern sisters felt intensely familiar. What is it that makes me return to this bleakly comic novel again and again?
Everyone remembers the Lisbon sisters … AJ Cook, Kirsten Dunst, Leslie Hayman and Chelse Swain in the 1999 film adaptation of The Virgin Suicides.Everyone remembers the Lisbon sisters … AJ Cook, Kirsten Dunst, Leslie Hayman and Chelse Swain in the 1999 film adaptation of The Virgin Suicides.he Virgin Suicides was published in 1993, the year Bill Clinton became president, the first Beanie Baby went on sale, and Cern released the world wide web source code into the public domain.
The book soon got passed around the more committed, easily-influenced-by-Tumblr girls. Although I grew up in Orlando, and the novel is set in the suburbs of mid-70s Detroit, where I have never been, the landscape felt so intensely familiar that I read it for the first time as though remembering it. I fell even more deeply in love with the five Lisbon sisters – blonde, long-haired and beloved by the boys across the street, who narrate the novel from a distance.
The novel is true to its title. First comes the suicide of 13-year-old Cecilia, the “weir”’ sister who always wears a wedding dress and high-tops she keeps clean with a toothbrush, who writes a diary and cares deeply about the fate of an elm tree in the family’s front yard. Over the course of the next 13 months, as her parents and sisters deal with their grief, they become increasingly isolated, or incarcerated by the neighbourhood’s silent judgment, depending on who the boys talk to .
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