The Virgin Suicides

"A Catcher in the Rye of Our Time." The Observer In the suburban home of the Lisbon family live five daughters: the clever Therese, the meticulous Mary, the ascetic Bonnie, the sharp Lux, and the pale, meek Cecilia. When the youngest of them throws herself out of the window, the year of suicides begins, forever changing all those involved and the observers. With dark humor and tender irony, Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides paints a portrait of a youth that has lost its innocence. This modern classic of American literature, first published in German under the title The Virgin Suicides and widely known through Sofia Coppola's film adaptation, is a poignant coming-of-age novel about growing up, the depths of the human psyche, and death.