num_pages: 249
description: This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates the year of the suicides.
language: English
title: The Virgin Suicides
titlecomplete: The Virgin Suicides
characters: Bonnie Lisbon, Cecilia Lisbon, Mary Lisbon, Therese Lisbon, Lux Lisbon
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Mental Health, Young Adult, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 311396
places: Michigan
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux