The novel begins with the suicide of the youngest daughter, 13-year-old Cecelia, who impales herself on a fence post after jumping out of her bedroom window. “The Virgin Suicides,” written by Jeffrey Eugenides in 1993, is one such novel, managing to keep tension through every page while constantly alluding to the tragic deaths of its main characters.Īs the title suggests, “TVS” tackles the lives (and more importantly, deaths) of the Lisbon sisters, who live in 1970s suburban Michigan. It may seem unlikely for a book like that to maintain suspense throughout 250 pages, and even more unlikely that it would be a landmark of contemporary literature. One might be put off by a novel with a plot that meanders toward an inevitable conclusion with narration coming from years after the events of the novel. When reading a mystery, one might not expect to learn the fate of every main character in the first line of the first chapter.
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