02 December 2015

Book 111: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides


Picked this up after really enjoying Middlesex, and while it's not as polished or quite as fascinating as that, it's still an excellent read. The premise - that all five young daughters of a family would, within the space of months, kill themselves, is an intriguing one, and the writing is good, though it has a slightly odd narrative tone, being both intimate and detached at the same time. Nonetheless I thought it was very good.

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