The Virgin Suicides

The mysterious Lisbon sisters obsessed the entire neighbourhood long before the first suicide, of Cecilia, the youngest. Looking back over the strange and hazy year that followed, men recall the boys they once were, and try to impose order on a tragedy that defies explanation. For still, the question remains - why did all five of the Lisbon girls have to die? *Uncannily evokes the wry voice of adolescence and a mixture of curiosity, lust, tenderness, morbidity, cynicism and the naiveté surrounding these bizarre events' Wall Street Journal

The mysterious Lisbon sisters obsessed the entire neighbourhood long before the first suicide, of Cecilia, the youngest. Looking back over the strange and hazy year that followed, men recall the boys they once were, and try to impose order on a tragedy that defies explanation. For still, the question remains - why did all five of the Lisbon girls have to die? *Uncannily evokes the wry voice of adolescence and a mixture of curiosity, lust, tenderness, morbidity, cynicism and the naiveté surrounding these bizarre events' Wall Street Journal