Jeffrey Eugenides
"First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Libson sisters - obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys - commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year."
All I have to say about this book is that it's really good. Like, really good. Like, I read it in two settings good. Also it's not at all sad. Russia is sad. Girls killing themselves, not that sad. Mainly, I think, due to the fact that it's really sterile. The story is being told by the boys who watched them years later. They're all middle aged and going back and interviewing people trying to figure out what happened.
So yeah, read this book. Don't be the doof that watches the movie first*.
* I had no clue that the movie was from 2000. Apparently it just made a comeback or something a couple years ago??
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