![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of a year, the book’s narrator and his friends bear witness as four Lisbon girls attempt to survive the suicide of Cecila, and its effect on the already startlingly spartan rule of their mother. Their mother is an unfeeling, stifling disciplinarian, their father is weak and adrift in the sea of women around him. Parental overindulgence is not something Mary, Therese, Bonnie, Cecila and Lux experience in their short lives, which we encounter through lovingly collated pieces of evidence by a group of boys from their suburban Michigan community. The Lisbon sisters of The Virgin Suicides don’t share this problem. You ruined me for real life, I tell them. I like to tease my parents about this photo. Around me is so much swag that some of it towers above me, while an array of smaller boxes make me a little Godzilla, stomping around my city of gifts. I am somewhere between a baby and toddler, and still my parents’ only child, a title I would keep for another three precious years. There is a photo of me at my second Christmas. ![]()
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